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Pandemic led to 270 million missed school days – prompting fears over exams

A total of 270 million school days were missed because of Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic, new figures showed, prompting fears over the impact on exam results in 2022. In the 2020/21 academic year, over 328 million days were missed due to ...

24 Mar 2022 at 15:25

Sats this year ‘useless’ and should be cancelled, say primary headteachers

Headteachers have said that Sats tests will be “useless” in 2022 and should be cancelled. In a survey of more than 2,000 school leaders carried out by the NAHT heads’ union, 8% said they thought the tests would provide meaningful information about ...

18 Mar 2022 at 01:25

State school teachers lack funding for careers guidance, says charity

Just under a third of teachers in state schools say they do not have enough funding to deliver quality careers guidance to their pupils, compared with 6% of private school teachers, a new report shows. The paper from social mobility charity, the ...

10 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Headteachers call for action over gender pay gap on International Women’s Day

School leaders have warned that action must be taken to stop the pay gap between male and female headteachers from widening. On Tuesday, International Women’s Day (IWD), Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders’ union, said ...

08 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Focus on poorer pupils removed as National Tutoring Programme target

The removal of a target to help disadvantaged pupils from the National Tutoring Programme is “outrageous” and “cynical”, a social mobility expert has said. In an email sent to school leaders and tuition partners seen by the PA news agency, ...

02 Mar 2022 at 16:55

Teachers’ leaders call for Government to repair ‘damage’ to pay

Teachers’ leaders have called on the Government to give teachers a pay rise this year, to “urgently repair the damage” to school staff salaries. In a joint statement from unions representing almost all headteachers and teachers in England,...

04 Mar 2022 at 16:25

Boost in number of pupils getting first choice school on National Offer Day

There are signs that more children are gaining places at their first choice of secondary school in a number of areas of England, a survey suggests. Hundreds of thousands of families across England are finding out which secondary school ...

01 Mar 2022 at 14:25

Teacher recruitment targets ‘could be missed in a range of subjects’

Teacher recruitment targets are likely to be missed in a range of secondary school subjects this year, including English, according to a report. In February 2022, the number of applications to initial teacher training was 23% lower ...

23 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Soaring Covid-related absences could ‘seriously damage’ exam grades, say heads

Levels of coronavirus-related pupil absences in state schools in England has more than tripled, new Government figures show. Rates of Covid-linked absences rose to 2.5% on March 17, up from 0.7% on March 3. In total, 201,600 ...

22 Mar 2022 at 15:55

Heads fear national tutoring data will be ‘de facto league table’

Headteachers have expressed concern about how published data on schools’ uptake of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) could be used as a “de facto league table”. On Friday, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi wrote to ...

13 May 2022 at 16:55

School leaders debate intervention from Zahawi over cancelled gay author visit

Headteachers will debate whether Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi should intervene at a Catholic school where a visit by a gay author was cancelled by the archdiocese. Simon James Green, a young adult author, had ...

28 Apr 2022 at 18:55

Heads condemn ‘confusing’ guidance for schools on living with Covid

Headteachers have criticised “confusing” new Government guidance issued to schools in England on how they should approach “living with Covid” from April 1. Advice published by the Department for Education on ...

31 Mar 2022 at 13:55

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