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Schools minister Nick Gibb has written to union leaders after they called for a 2.7 per cent increase in funding to be restored to NFF allocations

The schools minister has rejected education unions’ call for the DfE to restore per-pupil funding to the amount announced in July

Senior government figures should make marginalised and vulnerable pupils their policy ‘starting point’, says headteachers’ leader Geoff Barton

The national funding formula allocations for schools were revised down last week after the DfE announced a technical error in processing pupil numbers

Nearly 9 per cent of secondary school students were absent in the week beginning 25 September

Oak National Academy launches new lesson resources for teachers aimed at representing the diversity of modern life and cutting teacher workload

Next chief inspector says he will start the role with a ‘big listen’ to ensure Ofsted is ‘of the system and by the system’

Outwood Grange CEO officially confirmed as the next Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education has announced

Attainment at KS1 has risen slightly year-on-year but still remains far below pre-pandemic levels, new DfE figures show

The proportion of pupils achieving the expected standard in the KS1 phonics check has increased since last year but is still below levels achieved in 2019

No progress has been made over the last decade in tackling the attainment gap for children who are persistently disadvantaged, warns Education Policy Institute report

The process for dealing with the fall in birth rate through mergers and closures needs to be urgently addressed, argues a headteacher whose school faces closure