Friday
New education committee line-up is revealed
Several new faces on what is now known as the Education, Children and Young People Committee
Call to halt school Covid tests amid ‘serious risks’
Scientists and academics call for daily Covid contact testing trials to be halted in schools amid concerns over Delta variant
Thursday
What did OECD say when it last scrutinised Scotland?
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s long-awaited report on Curriculum for Excellent is imminent
Revealed: The extent of the pupil premium ‘stealth cut’
With 100,000 pupils becoming eligible for FSM in the autumn term, pupil premium policy change could cost schools £124m
Extending school day shouldn’t be a priority, say heads
Most school leaders think one-to-one catch-up tuition should be main focus of Covid recovery effort, new poll shows
Wednesday
Revealed: What new £25m DfE tutor plan will deliver
Most tutoring under DfE’s flagship NTP will be provided on a 1:3 basis to provide both ‘value for money’ and ‘high impacts’
Pupil Covid jabs won’t be recommended, says minister
Decision would be at odds with other countries vaccinating children to avoid school Covid outbreaks
Tuesday
More school leavers go to university but fewer in work
New figures show 42.9 per cent of 2019-20 school leavers in higher education – but Labour warns of ‘deep inequality’
Sunak urged to explain ‘shameful’ catch-up plan ‘block’
Pupils denied necessary catch-up support would be ‘a generation betrayed’, shadow minister says
Attendance data ‘masks’ Delta Covid rise, heads warn
Today’s DfE data doesn’t reflect ‘huge’ regional differences in pupil attendance caused by Delta variant, warns the NAHT
Friday
What did the education secretary tell teachers today?
Shirley-Anne Somerville addressed the EIS teaching union today – so what did we learn?
The government needs to listen to teachers
Those actually engaged in the business of educating young people should be central in the debate about what is – and what is not – working in our schools, writes Emma Seith
