DfE

The latest news and analysis on the Department for Education and the secretary of state for education, including new policy, legislation and appointments

Wednesday

28th Aug 2024

Schools ‘need crucial guidance’ after summer riots
DfE urged to publish guidance ‘swiftly’ ahead of the new school term next week to ‘help tackle the very real risk of division entering the school gates’
Governors call for riots support
Exclusive

Tuesday

27th Aug 2024

Don’t rush ‘biggest inspection change in decades’, heads warn
Ofsted’s single-word inspection judgements should be scrapped immediately but a replacement system needs to have the confidence of teachers, says union
Slow down road sign
Exclusive

Wednesday

21st Aug 2024

Heads’ concern over GCSE exam impact on student mental health
School leaders say survey acts as ‘stark reminder’ that the last government’s exam reforms ‘have had unintended and detrimental consequences on our young people’
Pupil with stress cloud

Tuesday

20th Aug 2024

EPI: Schools need guidance for pupils with multiple suspensions
Impact of suspensions called into question as students removed from the classroom are more than twice as likely to fail to achieve a level 3 qualification, research finds
Outside headmaster's office

Friday

16th Aug 2024

Child poverty strategy should not make ‘further asks’ of schools
As the government’s child poverty taskforce meets for the first time, leaders tell ÌÇÐÄVlog what they think the strategy should address when it comes to schools
Child sat eating with school lunch tray

Tuesday

13th Aug 2024

A levels: Phillipson vows to reverse inequalities in education
Ahead of A-level results day, the education secretary has pledged to tackle disadvantage gaps that the head of Ofqual has branded a ‘scandal’
Bridget Phillipson

Friday

9th Aug 2024

Unauthorised absence rising but attendance has improved
Unauthorised absence has risen by 80 per cent in secondary schools since the pandemic, new EPI analysis shows
Unauthorised absence rising but attendance has improved

Tuesday

6th Aug 2024

Teacher strikes: minimum service plan scrapped
The previous government’s plan to restrict future teacher strikes will be repealed through the Employment Rights Bill, Labour says
Teacher strikes

Monday

5th Aug 2024

Now Teach scheme ‘rescued’ by 11th hour funding
Teacher recruitment programme for career changers can now continue from September 2025 despite having had its funding axed by the previous government
person holding timer showing 11 minutes against backdrop of athletics track
Exclusive
NEU recommends that teachers accept pay deal
The advice to accept a 5.5% rise for 2024-25 suggests teacher strikes over pay are unlikely next year
NEU pay deal

Friday

2nd Aug 2024

Ministers urged to attend crunch talks to avoid Oak legal action
Government talks with BESA and other bodies bringing a judicial review over Oak National Academy have not yet found a way to halt the legal action, ÌÇÐÄVlog understands
No legal sign
‘New home PPA rules must work for parents’
Dame Alison Peacock, chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, tells ÌÇÐÄVlog the government must support leaders to ensure new PPA rules enable flexible working
Parent with child yoga
Exclusive