Friday
Investigation: ‘Come clean’ on funding gap, DfE told
91¶¶Òõ obtains councils’ first details of missing pupil premium millions. But government still hasn’t said how much poorest pupils will lose
Average teacher pension drops by 10% since 2000
‘Cuts to pension have gone too far,’ union warns, as National Audit Office report reveals long-term cuts
School PFI contract end may spark ‘serious disruption’
Government must prepare for end of hundreds of PFI contracts to avoid huge costs when buildings are handed back, say MPs
Thursday
Primaries’ catch-up cash ‘wiped out’ by funding shift
DfE change to pupil premium policy comes at ‘exceptionally bad time’, headteachers warn
Call for ‘catch-up’ fund to tackle disrupted learning
Fund would pay for tutors and wellbeing workshops in a bid to equalise education opportunities, says children’s charity
Wednesday
Government laptop and internet fund fails to hit target
Drive to provide digital devices and internet connectivity for disadvantaged pupils has not had expected reach
Only 44% of catch-up tutoring helps poorest pupils
Headteachers warn that government’s National Tutoring Programme is ‘the most complicated system imaginable’
£200m in catch-up cash taken out of education funds
Billion-pound recovery fund pledged in June last year was not all new Treasury money, report finds
Wednesday
Exclusive: Hit on pupil premium ‘offsets’ catch-up cash
DfE ‘attack’ on pupil premium ‘more than offsets’ catch-up cash, 15 local authorities tell education secretary
No MFL bursary boost despite teacher shortage
DfE won’t reverse ‘dramatic cuts’ to bursaries – even after MFL teachers were placed on shortage occupations list
MAT spent £2.3m on severance and redundancy payouts
One individual was paid £32,000 in major restructuring at Academies Enterprise Trust, accounts reveal
