Politics

MPs give Birbalsingh social mobility role green light

Committee says outspoken head will 'need to demonstrate her ability to listen' to those 'with whom she will not...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Zahawi pledges to put wellbeing ‘at the centre of everything we do in schools’

Education secretary to address heads in first speech to sector today

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’

Details are scarce on policy rehashed from retention scheme scrapped in 2020

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£3k ‘level up premium’ to send ‘best’ teachers to in-need areas

Johnson reannounces retention policy that his government scrapped last year

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Zahawi to ‘tackle innumeracy and illiteracy’ with white paper next year

The education secretary addressed the Conservative Party conference

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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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

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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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'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

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...

Freddie Whittaker
TOM RICHMOND
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Ministerial portfolios: Who’ll be doing what in the new DfE team

We finally know what each of the six ministers will be doing

Tom Belger
Tom Belger