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Professor Toby Salt, the chief executive of the AQA exam board, has stepped down after just over two years in the role, citing health and family reasons. Salt, who led the Ormiston Academies Trust before replacing Andrew Hall at AQA in 2017, said he had received a “serious” but not life-threatening health diagnosis, and also […]

Councils will be ordered to pass on new minimum per-pupil funding levels to schools from next year as the government finally seeks to “harden” its new national funding formula. Although councils will continue to set their own local funding formulae in 2020-21, the government will make the use of its new minimum per-pupil funding levels […]

The government’s standards for food served in England’s schools won’t be watered-down in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Gavin Williamson has insisted. The education secretary told MPs in the House of Commons this afternoon that he will not suspend or weaken the rules around how schools feed their pupils, despite the threat of food […]

Councils are increasingly open to allowing summer-born pupils to start school later, but parents still face a postcode lottery in their battle for flexibility, new data shows. Results from a survey of town halls by the Department for Education shows 62 per cent of local authorities say they are “more willing” to let pupils born […]

Katharine Howell, a former staffer at the New Schools Network and current aide to the leader of the House of Lords, has been appointed as a special adviser to Gavin Williamson. Government sources have confirmed that Howell will take up the policy SpAd role left vacant by Jon Yates, who served under Williamson’s predecessor Damian […]