‘Don’t call us ghost children’: The vulnerable families who fear school return Push to get children back to the classroom leaves families with severe health conditions feeling their needs are not being met
Teach First misses recruitment target as top graduate pay soars Provider tasked with attracting high-flying graduates calls for £5k recruitment bonus for teachers who work in deprived areas
‘Galling’ pay-offs for DfE ministers on the political merry-go-round Ten ministers who resigned or were sacked are due nearly £110,000 in pay-offs
Revealed: DfE’s ‘cluster takeover’ plan to boost big academy trusts Officials draw up proposals to help leading trusts expand into new regions
Oak considers letting private firms sell on its lessons Curriculum quango says it is considering whether to allow commercial use of its resources
DfE says Oak quango needed to break ‘cycle’ of curriculum weakness Everything you need to know about the government’s case for creating a new arms-length curriculum body
Two former schools ministers to run for education committee chair Robin Walker and Jonathan Gullis throw their hats in the ring to succeed Robert Halfon
Academies minister Baroness Barran stays on The appointment seems to complete the new Department for Education ministerial line-up
Claire Coutinho appointed education minister The former investment banker joins Nick Gibb and Rob Halfon who are set to be named schools minister and skills minister, respectively