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Callum Mason

Callum Mason is a correspondent at °Õ±ð²õÌýcovering school funding, governance, support staff, independent schools, behaviour, catch-up and more. Before joining °Õ±ð²õÌýhe worked as a financial journalist at MoneySavingExpert.com and in policy for the civil service.

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Falling rolls fund will open to schools with lower Ofsted grades
DfE funding rule change aims to help schools hit by falling pupil numbers due to the decline in the birth rate
General
26 April 2023
MATs shift cash to save primary schools
Two-thirds of heads ‘have to cut teaching assistants’
More schools are using pupil premium to plug funding gaps than at any point since polling began six years ago
General
26 April 2023
School funding: Many schools are having to cut teaching assistants
Inquiry will ‘rigorously investigate’ Ofsted inspection system
A new inquiry, chaired by a former schools minister, will look at ways to make school inspections ‘fairer’ amid controversy over Ofsted’s approach
General
25 April 2023
Microscope dish
Revealed: the schools least visited by ministers
Since last January Department for Education ministers have been more likely to visit schools in France and Spain than in the South West of England, data seen by ÌÇÐÄVlog reveals
General
21 April 2023
Sign post
Attendance: what’s gone wrong and how can we fix it?
Tackling pupil absence has been held up as a priority by successive education ministers, but what lies behind the problem? And do schools have the tools to fix it?
General
14 April 2023
Broken chair
Meet the ministers: DfE reshuffles led to 133 introductory meetings
Some education leaders attended five introductory meetings with Department for Education ministers in six months as government turmoil led to repeated reshuffles
General
12 April 2023
Ministers