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Unions representing hundreds of thousands of teachers and school leaders have revealed their concerns about the pay settlement for teachers announced today. Despite calls by the School Teachers’ Review Body for a 3.5 per cent rise in teacher and leaders’ pay across the board, ministers confirmed today that only those on the main pay range […]

The government has confirmed teacher pay arrangements from September, but the big rise touted by ministers is not all that it seems. Some classroom teachers will see their pay increase by 3.5 per cent in 2018-19, but others will get less. There’s extra money available too, but it won’t fully cover the rises, and schools […]

Ministerial payoffs, senior staff bonuses and millions in written-off debts have been revealed in the Department for Education’s annual report and accounts. The revealing document has been published on the last day before parliament rises for the summer recess. Here are some of the things we learned. 1. There were ‘fundamental weaknesses’ in the DfE’s […]

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is under pressure to take action over the capital’s “special needs timebomb”. The London Assembly’s cross-party education panel, which holds the mayor to account on policy matters, said Khan should lobby the government for more high needs funding for the capital’s schools, more flexibility over finances for local authorities, […]

An extensive survey of hundreds of school leaders and teachers has been published by the government, six months after it was completed. The Department for Education’s school snapshot survey: winter 2017 interviewed 800 senior leaders and 909 classroom teachers between November 6 2017 and January 17 2018. Here are some of the most important findings.   […]

The Department for Education has finally published its “workload reduction toolkit”, the day after most schools broke up for the summer. Ministers had pledged to release the resources – aimed at helping schools reduce unnecessary workload for their teachers – in the spring, but have only just published them this morning. The toolkit, which was […]

Schools have finally been told what they will have to teach in new relationships and sex education lessons, months after guidance was supposed to be published. The publication this week of draft guidance on the new RSE curriculum, which is to include health education when it becomes compulsory in 2020, but which won’t form part […]

Outsourcing firm Capita has refused to say when it first became aware of a computer bug that risks corrupting pupil data across the country. The company quietly announced the error with its school information management system (SIMS) on July 12, the same day it was awarded a £109 million contract to manage primary school tests […]

The government’s new national funding formula will not be rolled out fully until 2021 after ministers delayed its implementation by a year to “support a smooth transition”. The news was buried in analysis of local authorities’ schools block funding formulae, published this evening. The national funding formula officially came into being last September, aimed at […]