Wednesday
Schools ‘able to pay’ teachers for summer catch-up work
Education secretary says summer schools will be run by existing school staff
Longer school day ‘not part’ of DfE’s catch-up plan
Lengthening the school day is not part of the government’s plan to help pupils catch up on lost learning, says education secretary
Ofsted ‘pauses’ remote inspections for school return
No Ofsted inspections in the week commencing 8 March as schools and colleges focus on reopening to all pupils
Williamson ‘struggles to pinpoint’ catch-up cash reach
Education secretary expects ‘considerable expansion’ to 120,000 helped by tutors, but fails to say how many will benefit
More school time may have cut learning loss by half
DfE report shows pupils returning to school last June had less reading loss than those who continued learning remotely
How much cash will schools get in the catch-up package?
With the government releasing details of the Covid catch-up funding package, Tes looks at what it will mean for schools
School catch-up package ‘nowhere near big enough’
Extra government cash for poorer pupils is not even half of what is needed, warns NEU teaching union
‘Catch-up plans must put people ahead of systems’
Catch-up isn’t a short-term fix – we need a three- to five-year plan that is led by schools, says Russell Hobby
Need to know: Richard Lucas fitness-to-teach case
Teaching watchdog under fire after it did not strike off teacher who condemned politician for having ‘fatherless child’
Tuesday
Exclusive: GCSEs 2021 plan for July results in doubt
Sources say A-level and GCSE results now likely to be released to students early August, a month later than proposed
North-south divide in National Tutoring take-up
Northern areas less likely to sign up for the government’s catch-up tutoring scheme, a DfE official has revealed
