The exams regulator is “closely scrutinising” Edexcel’s approach to awarding A-level maths this year following complaints that it replaced a paper with a version that missed swathes of content pupils ...

Government’s decision not to “thrust” a “random vision” for education upon the profession is “refreshing”, the chair of the curriculum and assessment review has said. Professor Becky Francis believes ...

Twenty-seven schools out of more than 2,700 inspected in 2020 were judged to have safeguarding practices that were “not effective” (1 per cent). After the pandemic, the proportion rose to about 1.6 ...

Ministers have shown a willigness to listen. This will be crucial as they work out the detail of their reforms ...

An expert panel aimed at helping make mainstream schools more inclusive to children with SEND has been extended until after the government's white paper on SEN ...

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has backtracked on a key element of her flagship pledge to recruit 6,500 “new” teachers – confirming that they won’t all be new. The target also omits any ...

Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School went from being rated 'inadequate' to 'outstanding' by Ofsted in 10 years. Headteacher Declan Linnane shares its ...

Councils have two routes: pupils who can’t attend school because of exclusion, illness or another reason or pupils with an EHCP who can be placed in “education other than at school” (EOTAS). Councils ...

The government must find a way to re-engage young people without sacrificing what we’ve gained from the past decade’s ...

The changes came after criticism of the lack of enforcement of previous rules. A 2019 Institute for Public Policy Research study found two-thirds of secondary schools were still flouting the Baker ...

In previous years, the statutory guidance has tended to be published in May or June, before coming into force the following September. In an email today, the DfE said: “We will publish keeping ...

All novel, contentious and repercussive must be referred to DfE for approval before money changes hands. It is not known what prompted this change, but some have speculated it could be linked to the ...