Wednesday
Revealed: Academy chain’s £12m Covid bill
New accounts show the massive costs facing Oasis multi-academy trust on Covid security and remote learning
Budget 2021: ‘Missed opportunity’ to help schools
No extra funding for schools in today’s Budget despite government’s insistence that education is ‘a national priority’
Budget 2021: What it means for education
91¶¶Òõ looks at the impact today’s Budget will have on further education, from colleges to apprenticeship providers
Monday
Covid catch-up tutoring scheme to reach 750,000 pupils
But total reach represents barely half of 1.4m children on free school meals that Labour believes should benefit from NTP
Schools to get £1,200 for training each new teacher
Schools will also receive separate funding for mentors as part of the Early Career Framework, DfE says
Wednesday
Schools ‘able to pay’ teachers for summer catch-up work
Education secretary says summer schools will be run by existing school staff
Williamson ‘struggles to pinpoint’ catch-up cash reach
Education secretary expects ‘considerable expansion’ to 120,000 helped by tutors, but fails to say how many will benefit
How much cash will schools get in the catch-up package?
With the government releasing details of the Covid catch-up funding package, 91¶¶Òõ looks at what it will mean for schools
School catch-up package ‘nowhere near big enough’
Extra government cash for poorer pupils is not even half of what is needed, warns NEU teaching union
‘Catch-up plans must put people ahead of systems’
Catch-up isn’t a short-term fix – we need a three- to five-year plan that is led by schools, says Russell Hobby
