Monday
Catch-up: ‘Did the right man resign?’ Williamson asked
Education secretary faced gasps and groans from MPs as he defended the Department for Education’s school catch-up plan in Parliament today
Banned: ‘Excessively tactile’ teacher who hugged pupils
A teacher who admitted to being in the habit of hugging students has been banned from the profession for two years
Williamson: ‘Too many schools’ restricting lunch hours
Education secretary criticises schools over shortened lunch breaks as he outlines plan to review length of school day
Fresh call for cuts to class sizes and contact time
Dramatic reductions in class sizes and contact time envisaged by 2030 in proposals tabled at EIS conference
School catch-up plan is ‘bargain basement’, DfE told
Education minister accused of ‘defending the indefensible’ over school Covid recovery plan in the House of Lords
Teacher training applications at a ‘50 year high’
Numbers applying to go into teaching at a major teacher training provider in the south of England are now at their highest ever level
Teachers taking second jobs to ‘put food on the table’
Concerns over teachers on ‘zero-hour contracts’ raised in an open letter to the education secretary
‘Never have schools felt so alone’
Schools have all the stress of teacher-assessed grades – and they haven’t got decent catch-up funding, says David James
