Covid

Catch-up mentors used as teaching cover, report reveals

Mentors redeployed during periods of 'particularly high' staff absences

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Zahawi unveils new 17-member ‘attendance alliance’

Academy trust leaders will also form a sub-alliance to identify best practice

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

DfE reveals its targets for £377m NPQ and ECF reforms

Documents show how the DfE will mark its own homework on flagship teacher training reforms

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
SEND

SEND review has ‘taken too long’, and comms ‘regrettable’ – minister

Will Quince tells MPs DfE 'could have done better' in its engagement with stakeholders

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ITT review

ITT market review: what you need to know about new reforms

The Department for Education has published its response to the ITT market review today – setting out finalised reforms...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Teacher training

DfE delays ITT market review reforms for a year

Providers will now have to comply with new requirements from 2024-25

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

Staff have to ‘drop something’ to fit in ECF, provider admits

Here's what we learned from the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers annual conference this week

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

ITT providers ‘alarmingly selling specific pedagogies’ as ‘be all and end all’, Ofsted says

Some initial teacher training providers inspected under the new Ofsted framework were “misinforming trainees” by teaching them only specific...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

Final ITT review ‘more implementable’, says DfE adviser

Professor Sam Twiselton, who criticised review, says final proposals are 'more flexible, more doable', and hints at implementation delay

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker