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Lionesses write to Tory leadership hopefuls over access to football for girls

England’s Lionesses have written an open letter to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss demanding that all schoolgirls have access to a minimum of two hours a week of sport classes. All 23 members of the England women’s team called on the Tory leadership ...

03 Aug 2022 at 17:49

SATs and GCSE results will form basis of Ofsted judgment on curriculums

Ofsted will judge school curriculums based on their 2022 SATs and GCSE results, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The DfE said it will not publish KS2 SATs in league tables but that it will produce the “normal suite” of KS2 ...

25 Mar 2022 at 13:55

New GCSE in climate science to be launched

A new natural history GCSE will be launched next week, focusing on how pupils can protect the planet. The qualification will be available from September 2025 and is set to be announced by Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi on Thursday. The ...

17 Apr 2022 at 17:55

Schools being ‘thrown to the wolves’ over league table decision

Schools are being “thrown to the wolves” over a decision to publish GCSE performance tables for 2022, headteachers will warn on Friday. Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in ...

11 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Ex-DfE civil servant condemns Whitehall’s ‘disconnect’ from reality

The former permanent secretary at the Department for Education has said that Whitehall is “too often disconnected from reality” and shows “surprisingly little interest” in how the public feel about public services. Jonathan ...

08 Mar 2022 at 01:25

School finance figures mask ‘cruel divides between haves and have nots’ – report

The underfunding of schools could “damage children’s education” according to a new report. The report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), published on Friday, warns that the Department for Education relies too much ...

04 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Derogatory language and homophobic bullying ‘common’ in top academy chain school

A school that is part of one of the country’s leading academy chains has been given a termination warning notice to close amid reports of homophobic bullying and derogatory language. The Department for Education handed ...

27 May 2022 at 16:59

New powers to shut down illegal schools announced

Unsafe, illegal schools will be shut down under new Government powers, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The DfE said that its work on closing unsafe independent schools until now had been “slow”. ...

06 May 2022 at 15:25

Heads say using SATs as part of Ofsted judgment on curriculum makes ‘no sense’

Headteachers have criticised the decision for Ofsted to use schools’ 2022 SATs and GCSE results as part of its judgment of curriculum impacts. The DfE announced on Friday that it will not publish KS2 SATs in ...

25 Mar 2022 at 16:55

Prisoners will study for apprenticeships for first time

Prisoners will be able to study for apprenticeships to keep them on “the straight and narrow”, the Government has announced. For the first time, the law change will allow inmates in open prisons to apply ...

11 Feb 2022 at 13:25

Nearly one in eight schools have high levels of CO2 according to air monitors

New data released by the Government shows that nearly one in eight schools and colleges have levels of carbon dioxide that are too high. In a survey of more than 4,000 schools and colleges by the ...

24 Jan 2022 at 12:55

Nadhim Zahawi announces crackdown on school attendance ‘postcode lottery’

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has vowed to end a “postcode lottery” on school absence across the country, in what will be a “key component” of his Schools White Paper expected later in the ...

25 Jan 2022 at 17:55

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