DfE to let councils invest absence fines in attendance support The DfE has also published more prescriptive guidance for schools, trusts and councils on attendance policies
Exams 2022: Invigilator rules relaxed over shortage fears But experts warns schools still face ‘huge challenge’ in securing enough invigilators
New DfE powers to ban online teachers amid grooming fears The government plans to close a series of loopholes in its teacher misconduct regime
Schools can help eradicate outdated myth that physics isn’t for girls Recent comments by ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ suggesting girls ‘naturally’ don’t like physics, are damaging and outdated, writes Rachel Youngman
Herrington: ‘We’ll miss targets if trusts act in their own interest’ Meeting literacy and numeracy targets will require academies’ and councils cooperating, says national schools commissioner
Teachers ‘unsupported’ as Covid outbreaks continue to blight schools Almost half of teachers report testing positive last term, according to union survey
Pupil attendance falls again as Covid closures double Despite overall Covid absences falling, the number of pupils missing school due to closures doubled to 34,000
Covid: In-school vaccination programme to end this week Schools still asked to ‘signpost’ alternative vaccination routes for pupils
White paper: What academy shakeup means for trusts, councils and schools Trusts should have 10+ schools, councils will run academies and good schools may exit trusts in shakeup of ‘messy’ system