Monday
Profile: ‘Prep schools aren’t Hogwarts - we innovate’
Prep schools’ leader Chris King tells 91¶¶Òõ why mobile phones should be used by teachers, how bursaries may ‘take a knock’, and what happened when he met the Duke of Edinburgh
Tributes for ex-education secretary Shirley Williams
Baroness Williams of Crosby, who championed comprehensives and was seen as a ‘trailblazer’ for education, dies aged 90
Exclusive: Thumbs down to longer day and shorter breaks
Catch-up: Parents see pupil wellbeing support as more important than extended school days and reduced holidays, Ipsos Mori poll finds
Scrap primary school homework, say Scottish Greens
In the run-up to the Scottish Parliament election, the party says primary school homework ‘is of limited benefit’
Friday
Allow exclusions if pupils attack, say teacher leaders
But excluded pupils should be ‘reintegrated into mainstream education as soon as possible’, NEU boss argues
Teachers ‘need immediate cut to devastating workload’
Efforts by the DfE to remedy problem have ‘clearly not had the desired effect’, teachers’ leader warns
Are hubs or phone bans what schools really need now?
Covid has exposed dire inequalities in education – yet Gavin Williamson talks of phone bans, says Geoff Barton
NEU: ‘We were right to call for Covid school closures’
NEU leaders accuse Gavin Williamson of being ‘blind to the gravity and danger of the situation’ with Covid infections in January
Exclusive: Academies reveal pupils hit by ‘stealth’ cut
Upwards of 1,500 pupils at three trusts will lose out on pupil premium funding owing to DfE policy shift, data suggests
