Guidance

The latest news, analysis and best-practice advice when it comes to official education guidance coming from the government, inspectorates and governing bodies

Thursday

3rd Feb 2022

Behaviour: DfE rows back on mobile phone crackdown
The government is calling on heads to ‘mitigate’ the risks of students bringing phones into schools in revised behaviour guidance published today

Friday

28th Jan 2022

Tes essentials: Mask confusion, behaviour and teacher stress
A round-up of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week
Tes essentials: High Covid pupil absence in schools, face mask confusion, the Early Career Framework, GCSEs and academies
Physics teacher shortage needs ‘urgent’ action, DfE told
The Institute of Physics deputy chief executive said attracting engineering graduates into teaching is key in addressing the recruitment crisis in the subject
Schools told to keep masks as Covid cases surge
Public health directors in areas across the country want schools to retain masks because of high local Covid rates
Local public health directors in some areas have called for masks to remain in communal areas of schools.

Thursday

27th Jan 2022

A 10-step guide to using air-cleaning units
The government has come under fire for not supplying enough schools with air-cleaning units to help them fight Covid. But how much difference do these devices make? Here experts explain how they can be very effective
Covid, Ventilation

Wednesday

26th Jan 2022

Schools risk teaching about ‘world that won’t exist’
Most teachers say that climate change is not ‘meaningfully’ embedded in the curriculum, as a student-led bill on climate change gets second reading in Commons

Tuesday

25th Jan 2022

Schools face more scrutiny on ‘avoidable absence’
DfE plans to introduce new rules on school attendance and parental fines in a bid to reduce pupil absence
The DfE wants to create new rules on when pupils' parents can be fined for absence from school
Masks to continue in Welsh schools until half term
Following February half term the expectation is that schools will decide if masks and other measures are necessary
Masks to continue in Welsh schools until half-term
5 problems with the NTP, according to school leaders
Tutors from the government’s Covid catch-up scheme are not always ‘very good with children’, head tells MPs
The NTP is well short of its targets for pupils being reached in 2021/22 new figures show
Less than 2 in 5 teachers feel confident in their role
Exclusive: New survey shows rising workload concerns and a sharp drop in confidence of school staff during Covid pandemic
Less than 2 in 5 teachers feel confident in their role

Friday

21st Jan 2022

Tes essentials: Zahawi, face masks and phonics
A round-up of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week
Tes round-up: Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi talks exclusively to Tes; a change to face mask rules for schools; and a challenge to systematic phonics
PM tells schools to follow rules to ditch masks in class
Boris Johnson says schools should ‘follow the guidance’ after some said they would continue to recommend masks due to high Covid rates
Scotland, mask, removal