Thursday
Revealed: How catch-up tutoring increased this year
The number of schools and pupil starts on the National Tutoring programme has risen compared with last year, new figures suggest
Weekly round-up: Behaviour, teacher pay and Ofsted
This week’s essential education news includes a record number of school suspensions, analysis of the teacher pay deal and the challenges facing the next head of Ofsted
Highest teacher trainee dropout rate in 5 years
The number of trainees who failed to qualify with QTS was up by 40 per cent in 2021-22
School suspensions: the scale of the problem revealed
New government data on suspensions shows the surge in behaviour issues that schools are having to contend with – and which year groups are proving most problematic
Wednesday
Mobile ban would spark ‘secretive’ use, Gibb warned
Schools minister said he will review DfE mobile phones in schools policy following Unesco report on negative impact on learning
Teachers ‘pick up pieces’ of ‘dangerous misogyny’
Warning comes amid concerns over sexual harassment against women teachers and girls in schools
How to get pupils reading for pleasure? Widen their choice
Reading should never be viewed as a punishment and teachers should be wary of prioritising ‘highbrow’ books, says teacher of English Alan Gillespie
Tuesday
Ofsted ‘flat-out wrong’ on MAT exclusions, says DfE adviser
DfE behaviour tsar Tom Bennett has criticised Ofsted for suggesting suspensions and exclusions were too high in a multi-academy trust report
Subject experts cast doubt over national music education plan
Warning comes ahead of September deadline for schools to set out plans for ‘high-quality music curriculum’, including at least an hour a week of teaching
Need to know: new figures on widening access to university
The Scottish government hit its overall interim target for getting more young people from disadvantaged areas into university – but three higher education institutions failed to satisfy individual targets
Schools need details of £40m hardship fund ‘ASAP’, DfE told
School leaders’ union urges DfE to reveal the criteria for its hardship fund, announced as part of the teacher pay deal
