Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’ Details are scarce on policy rehashed from retention scheme scrapped in 2020
State V private school funding gap widens IfS analysis finds average private school fees are now 92 per cent higher than state funding
NAHT wants more support to ease heads’ workload Leaders’ union will debate conference motion to investigate how to better support workloads
Zahawi to ‘tackle innumeracy and illiteracy’ with white paper next year The education secretary addressed the Conservative Party conference
Zahawi appoints former head Mark Lehain as policy adviser Former director of the New Schools Network and Parents and Teachers for Excellence joins DfE team
Scrapping teachers’ directed time would be ‘met with fury’, says union boss NEU boss says abolishing cap on teachers’ hours would be a ‘big mistake’
Government delays revealing cost of schools’ PFI deals The most recent figures are now more than three years and six months out of date
Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England from September 2021 Most scales remain the same in 2021 as last year due to the pay freeze for most public sector workers
Labour’s policies reveal dividing lines are forming Starmer’s conference pledges lack detail, but it would be unfair to expect a fully-developed platform at this stage, writes Tom Richmond