DfE
The latest news and analysis on the Department for Education and the secretary of state for education, including new policy, legislation and appointments
Tuesday
12th Mar 2024
Transgender guidance: Fight legal cases for schools, DfE told
Teaching unions voice fears about draft transgender guidance in their submissions to the government’s consultation
Keegan urged to publicly retract Ofsted punch comment
Union representing Ofsted HMI has today written to Gillian Keegan after comments she made at the annual ASCL conference
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Saturday
9th Mar 2024
Phillipson: More ‘transparency’ needed in regional ‘layer’
The shadow education secretary was speaking at the ASCL conference in Liverpool this morning
Barton: Government must make classrooms ‘fit for learning’
Geoff Barton uses last speech as ASCL leader to highlight the ‘shocking’ state of school buildings, along with the need for a curriculum review and better funding
Friday
8th Mar 2024
Keegan would have ‘punched’ rude Ofsted inspectors
Schools and inspectors should show ‘professionalism, courtesy, empathy and respect’, says Ofsted chief in response to education secretary’s comments
Leaders ‘queasy’ about relying on international recruitment
Recruiting teachers from other countries that need them, ‘morally’ doesn’t ‘feel like the right thing for us to be doing’, says ASCL general secretary
Sir Kevan Collins: ‘We did nothing. We gave up. It was pathetic’
Three years after his appointment as the ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins tells the full story of the four months he spent trying to get the government to take education recovery seriously
Pepe Di’Iasio on funding, pay and ‘streamlining’ the middle tier
The incoming ASCL general secretary outlines his priorities for his tenure as the country enters a general election year and tells Tes what he thinks the next government should focus on
Wednesday
6th Mar 2024
Budget 2024: £105m for 15 new special free schools
Here’s everything schools need to know about today’s Budget announcement
Parental complaints: DfE told urgent change needed to help schools
The volume of complaints is ‘not sustainable’ and ‘will have an impact on our ability to retain our leaders’, warns CST chief Leora Cruddas
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