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28 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Government to ‘explore’ one-to-one teaching for ‘exceptional’ pupils

The prime minister has said he wants to “take further” the idea of one-to-one teaching, both for pupils in need of catch-up support and those of “exceptional ability”. During his speech to the Conservatives’ virtual conference, Boris Johnson said he wanted to “explore the value of one-to-one teaching”, adding that believed such intensive teaching could […]

Academy orders can be revoked if schools improve to ‘good’, DfE confirms

Failing maintained schools that become ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before converting into academies can have their academy orders revoked, the Department for Education has officially confirmed. The DfE has today updated its statutory guidance on “schools causing concern” with more detail on the scenarios in which academy orders can be revoked. This appears to be the […]

How schools became the battleground of Cummings’s culture war

Schools have been hurled into the centre of a “culture war” by the publication of unexpected guidance thought to have originated in Downing Street that targets divisive educational issues. This has all the hallmarks of having been thrown in by No 10 in the expectation that there will be a massive row Documents supposedly meant […]

‘Compelling logic’ in call to scrap GCSEs, says Green

Calls to scrap GCSEs deserve “serious consideration”, the shadow education secretary has said, as she pledged a review of the “whole of the assessment system”. In her first interview with an education sector publication since taking the job, Kate Green told Schools Week that there was “a lot of compelling logic” in the case being […]

DfE to clarify ‘intent’ of controversial new RSE guidance

The government is set to issue a statement clarifying the “intent” of additional relationships and sex education guidance published last week, amid reports of confusion and fear among teachers, campaigners have said. Some of the teachers who have contacted us have really been very concerned Liz Moorse, chief executive the Association of Citizenship Teaching, told […]

NEU launches ‘school Covid map’ website

The National Education Union has launched a website to show the Covid infection rate around individual schools. The Covid-19 Map for Schools website allows anyone to search for their local school and see government data on the number of cases in the area, and whether it’s on a local “watchlist”. The union said today nearly […]

Coronavirus: Nearly one in six secondaries not fully open, DfE data suggests

Around 1,500 schools have now been forced to partially close, with as many as one in six secondary schools not open to all pupils, new government figures show. According to the Department for Education’s latest school attendance survey data, 84 per cent of state-funded secondary schools were fully-open to all pupils as of last Thursday, […]

Campaign calls for BAME author quotas in GCSE study lists

Exam boards should ensure “at least a quarter of authors” in GCSE English literature specifications are from ethnic minority backgrounds, Teach First has said. The education charity also said schools need extra funding to train and support teachers “to appropriately explore racism with their pupils”, and called for a special fund to allow schools to […]