White paper: Schools will have to foot future tutoring bill Ministers face calls to increase pupil premium funding to cover tutoring and literacy and numeracy focus
Zahawi admits reform failures. But can he win over academy sceptics? The education secretary speaks to Schools Week about his plans for schools, and why he doesn’t want to ‘play politics’
DfE ‘misreporting’ data to back academies drive, claims NEU Government’s case for full academisation is ‘flawed’, say union leaders
Just half of secondary teachers tell parents about action on ‘falling behind’ pupils Informing families about interventions for pupils behind in English and maths is a key strand of the DfE’s new ‘parent pledge’
Revealed: 24 ‘priority’ areas to split £40m improvement cash DfE also almost doubles academy trust growth funding for the next three years
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
Schools white paper: New key stage 3 benchmarking tests The digital tests will provide an ‘understanding of national performance’
Schools ‘asked to offer’ 32.5-hour week by 2023 – and Ofsted will check Expectation is equivalent to a six and a half hour day, which most schools already provide
Catholic trust pilot in disarray after academy U-turn and pay gaffe The DfE faces calls to apologise after a legal challenge halted its academisation push with Hallam diocese, whose schools also saw funding delayed