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The parliamentary education committee has questioned the effectiveness of the government’s social mobility “opportunity areas” programme, highlighting concerns over its independence, value for money and a lack of joined-up working. Robert Halfon, the Conservative chair of the committee, has written to Damian Hinds, the education secretary, following a number of hearings looking at the policy. […]

Another expert panel has been formed by the government, this time to help design new national professional qualifications for teachers. The panel is the eighth set up since Damian Hinds became education secretary in January 2018. Plans for five new NPQs – aimed at opening up career opportunities outside the traditional school leadership route – […]

Ministers say more schools are tackling teacher workload, despite less than half of leaders having made use of new government guidance on the issue. A Department for Education survey found 94 per cent of school leaders are taking steps to reduce workload relating to marking, up from 88 per cent last year. However, just 46 […]

Almost a fifth of schools are not managing asbestos in line with government guidance, a long-awaited report has revealed. The Department for Education has finally published its asbestos management assurance process report, based on an extensive survey of schools that launched well over a year ago. The survey confirms that the overwhelming majority of participating […]

More prescriptive guidance forcing primary heads to teach about LGBT relationships would not have prevented protests outside schools in Birmingham, the schools minister has said. Nick Gibb told the House of Commons today that new statutory guidance on relationships and sex education deliberately left it up to schools when to teach about LGBT issues in […]

Dame Martina Milburn will be paid £350-a-day for her work as the chair of the Social Mobility Commission after taking on “more responsibilities” in the role, the government has announced. The chief executive of the Prince’s Trust was appointed last year to head up the relaunched commission. The role was initially unpaid. However, education secretary […]

The Department for Education will consult on plans to bring the transparency of spending in local authority maintained schools in line with that of academies, it has been announced. The government will shortly publish a consultation “to address the disparity between transparency of financial reporting in local authority schools and academies”, a spokesperson said. Ministers […]

Fifty-four thousand fewer pupils are now learning in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’-rated schools than were two years ago, the Department for Education has said. The government has today published an “ad-hoc notice” on school inspection outcomes, which reveals the number of pupils in schools with the top two Ofsted grades stood at 6,731,000 as of March […]