Teacher pay

Teacher pay: 8 interesting findings from the DfE’s STRB evidence

Ministers' submission includes analysis of the teacher recruitment and retention market, as well as staff pay trends

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Walker promises flexibility after early career framework ‘straitjacket’ complaints

Department officials will look at giving mentors 'more options' for when they can do training

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

DfE challenged over plan to award top trusts £121m Institute of Teaching

Decision could leave department facing another procurement row

John Dickens
John Dickens
Ofsted

Ofsted delays ECF and NPQ provider inspections

Full inspections of lead providers will start from spring 2023

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Cambridge refuses to reapply for teacher training over ‘prescriptive’ reforms

Top uni concerned about 'important inconsistencies' in reforms set out in initial teacher training review

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Academics want reform of ‘narrow’ phonics focus

Study claims teaching reading in England has been 'less successful' under new approach

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Plan to remove teachers’ hours cap ditched from white paper

New DfE team shelves policies drawn up by former education secretary Gavin Williamson

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Schools cut music and PE, and 7 other findings from DfE recovery research

Report looks at how schools coped with the impact of Covid in 2020-21

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

New year’s honours 2022: Who got what in the schools community

56 people with links to England's schools have been recognised

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker