Covid: Schools ‘picking up the pieces’ amid lack of support services Schools shouldered ‘significant responsibilities within networks of support that have themselves fragmented’ – UCL report
Academy CEOs earn £127k on average, and men get £15k more New benchmarking tool sheds more light on executive pay in the academies sector
£184m NPQs funding now available to all schools after DfE U-turn Funding for four of six qualifications was previously due to be limited to staff in deprived schools
Zahawi won’t set ‘arbitrary deadline’ for academy ambition Education secretary faces calls for clarity over academies plans
Zahawi pledges to put wellbeing ‘at the centre of everything we do in schools’ Education secretary to address heads in first speech to sector today
Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’ Details are scarce on policy rehashed from retention scheme scrapped in 2020
State V private school funding gap widens IfS analysis finds average private school fees are now 92 per cent higher than state funding
Schools can seek Ofsted deferral for vaccine clashes DfE tells heads vaccine rollout ‘should take priority’
2021 autumn A-level ‘resit’ entries plummet 56% Ofqual reveals just 8,880 entries have been made for autumn A-level exams, down from 20,100 in 2020