Tuesday
Zahawi wants Ofsted to help raise school attendance
Education secretary asks DfE to do a ‘deep dive into absenteeism’ as new figures show more than one in 10 pupils was off last week
Nursery schools need extra £96m to survive, DfE is told
Heads and teachers’ leaders in joint call for government to provide long-term solution for maintained nursery schools
Revealed: The advisers shaping DfE plans for schools
Who are the new advisers working with education ministers on policies affecting teaching?
Removing cap on teacher hours ‘would hit recruitment’
Education research chief cautions against adding to teachers’ ‘unmanageable workload’ by lifting limit on working hours
Heads demand action from Zahawi on ‘grim’ Covid figures
Heads’ union appeals to education secretary after new figures show more than 200,000 pupils were off because of Covid
Government launches Covid education recovery plan
But teaching union hits out at lack of new ideas and calls for the Scottish government to ‘be bolder’
More than 200,000 pupils off because of Covid
Confirmed and suspected cases of Covid in schools have soared compared with two weeks ago, new figures show
DfE Covid rules ‘actively help spread virus’, say heads
School leaders concerned that children can attend school if sibling has Covid ‘even if they share a bedroom’
Monday
Zahawi: White Paper on ‘illiteracy’ in new year
New education secretary Nadhim Zahawi also praises teachers’ dedication in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference
Why school inspections don’t make sense right now
How can inspectors understand what is happening in schools when they have not been inside them for over 18 months, asks this head
PM must stop schools ‘firing and rehiring’, union warns
Union leader to tell Conservative Party conference the practice is causing ‘anxiety and misery’ for teachers and their families
3 in 5 students want teamwork to be tested in GCSEs
Almost half of students with the lowest grades say GCSEs did not help them progress, research shows
