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The education secretary Justine Greening will be brought before MPs next month to answer questions about school funding, changes to GCSEs and educational outcomes for poorer children, the new education select committee has announced. MPs will also grill Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman and Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier “in the coming weeks”. The new […]

Workload is the “most important factor” for teachers leaving the profession, with government initiatives and policy changes not far behind, research by the Department for Education has found. The government has published a wide-ranging analysis of teacher supply, which looks into problems at school and teacher level. As part of the research, the DfE surveyed 1,023 […]

Teaching unions have once again demanded that the government remove the cap on all public sector pay rises, after it was lifted for police and prison officers. The government today announced that the two professions will receive rises above the one-per-cent limit this year, and suggested that restrictions on other sectors’ pay could be lifted […]

The full membership of the House of Commons education committee has been confirmed. Five Conservative MPs, five Labour MPs and one Scottish National Party MP will serve under the chairship of Robert Halfon, the former skills minister. The committee holds the government and its regulators, like Ofsted and Ofqual, to account on policy, administration and […]

The government cannot prove its efforts to boost teacher retention and quality are having a positive impact or achieving value for money, the National Audit Office has said in a damning new report. In a major blow to the Department for Education’s workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not […]

The government will lean on “reluctant” councils to place vulnerable children in boarding schools instead of costly residential care, an education minister has said. Officials will promote boarding as an alternative to care, against what Lord Nash described as a backdrop of historic “prejudice”, as part of a drive to place more vulnerable children in […]

Five new university technical colleges (UTCs) have opened their doors this month, including one that was so popular it had to increase capacity before it even opened. The news has been heralded by Lord Baker, the former education secretary and architect of the UTCs programme, who claims too many mainstream schools “only care about exam pass […]

Just one of the 10 new technical qualifications developed for 14- to 16-year-olds has been signed off by the government, AQA has admitted. The exam board says nine of its new “technical awards”, vocational qualifications designed to be taken alongside GCSEs, have been rejected by the Department for Education. AQA announced the news on its […]