Slashing maths bursary in retention pilot lost scores of teachers While early career payments improved retention, lower initial payment in DfE scheme hit recruitment more
EYFS results improve, but some pupils far behind DfE says improvement may show Covid recovery or familiarity with new assessments – but gender gap widens
Leaders vow to shun minimum service levels for schools But DfE refuses to say whether schools will face action for failing to issue work notices to striking staff
Minimum service level proposals: Everything schools need to know It will be left up to heads to decide ‘appropriate’ staffing levels and down to schools and trusts to issue new ‘work notices’
DfE wants 3 in 4 pupils in during strikes, leaked documents reveal Ministers accused of acting in ‘bad faith’ and deliberately ‘collapsing’ minimum service level talks with unions
DfE south west regional director leaves for council job Hannah Woodhouse to depart the DfE after seven years
Schools improving, SEND failings and AP ‘misuse’: 9 Ofsted annual report findings Amanda Spielman has published her final report as chief inspector
Ofsted ‘poorly understood’ and under-funded, says Spielman Outgoing chief inspector laments ‘a wave of publicly expressed discontent about issues that Ofsted alone cannot resolve’
拢13m trial to test ‘innovative’ support for neurodiverse pupils 1 in 10 primaries will get five days鈥� worth of additional specialist help from trained staff