STRB report: 6.5% teacher pay rise, but DfE will only fund 3% Unions will recommend their members accept ‘properly funded’ pay deal
DfE won’t publish primary progress data in 2024 or 2025 Lack of ‘robust alternative baseline’ following Covid SATs cancellations, government concludes
NFER: Extend ‘levelling-up’ retention payments to all deprived schools Report also warns 6.5% pay rise won’t solve teacher recruitment and retention woes on its own
Key stage 2 SATs: Overall results same as 2022, but reading falls 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year
Scaled scores for 2023 key stage 2 SATs announced DfE publishes marks pupils need to meet the ‘expected’ standard
IfS: Labour private schools plan could boost public purse by 拢1.3bn Think tank predicts only ‘small movement’ of pupils into state schools if Starmer enacts VAT plan
Whitehaven leaves shadow of Bright Tribe with ‘good’ Ofsted rating School once at centre of one of the largest academy trust scandals now ‘at the heart of the community’
Report calls for 鈥楥hris Whitty of education鈥� Chief education officer would ‘ensure that policies and plans are given the attention and priority they deserve’
Labour teacher ‘hit squads’: ‘MATs already exist’ say leaders Starmer’s plan for regional school improvement teams raise ‘accountability’ questions