DfE

Labour’s new ministerial team needs to learn the lessons of the past and recognise that ‘structures beget standards’, says Sam Freedman

National efforts to make schools more inclusive risk ignoring the huge amount of expertise in the specialist sector, say headteachers

The increase would be ‘a real-terms pay cut’ and undermine the government’s target to recruit 6,500 teachers, a letter from four main education unions tells education secretary

Meanwhile, separate DfE statistics show a sharp increase in children who are in elective home education

The income that schools generate themselves is now at its highest since the current form of records began

The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds

The Competition and Markets Authority says it has reason to suspect some companies colluded to ‘rig bids’ for the Condition Improvement Fund

The Department for Education has published its evidence to the STRB

The review into Oak National Academy was originally expected to conclude by September 2024, but is now expected in ‘early 2025’

Increasing specialist provision in mainstream schools will be costly and require ‘massive change’, warns Institute of Fiscal Studies

Catherine McKinnell tells MPs that work is under way to recalculate teachers’ pensions, as delays prompt a law firm to investigate a potential group claim.

Findings suggest many qualified teachers are working as TAs, but the notion they’ll get an ‘easy ride’ is ‘well wide of the mark’, warns union leader