General
Tuesday
4th Nov 2025
Curriculum and assessment review: 14 key points
The Francis review’s final recommendations include scrapping the EBacc, reducing exam time and making triple science available to all at GCSE
Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’, union warns
First minister responds after GMB union highlights ‘dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour’ in Scottish schools
Unity Schools Partnership appoints CEO to replace Coulson
Dominic Norrish, previously COO of United Learning, will take up the role following Tim Coulson’s departure to become director general of the DfE’s regions group
Monday
3rd Nov 2025
DfE seeks teachers for policy ‘sounding board’
The government is looking for primary and secondary teachers to join the latest cohort of its Teacher Reference Group
Union’s legal challenge of new Ofsted inspections rejected
The NAHT’s bid for a judicial review over the new Ofsted framework was heard just a week before inspections are due to start
Friday
31st Oct 2025
New guidance on little-known DfE capital funding budget
The government has provided information about acquiring funding through its Strategic School Improvement Capital Budget
Multi-year pay recommendation: all you need to know
The government has proposed that teachers get a 6.5 per cent pay award over the next three years. 91¶¶Òõ sets out all the key information about the DfE’s provisional offer
DfE urged to probe ‘persistent disruptive behaviour’ exclusions
Some pupils are being wrongly excluded from school because this vague ‘catch-all’ category is creating inconsistency in the system, warn PRU and AP leaders
Exclusive
SEND: Home-to-school transport overspend hits £415m
NAO calls on government to tackle ‘unsustainable’ costs as almost half of local authorities report annual overspends of 20 per cent or more on getting pupils to school
Thursday
30th Oct 2025
School referrals to social services hit new high
Schools made nearly 45,000 more social services referrals last year compared with a decade ago, DfE data shows
DfE: Teachers should get 6.5% pay rise over three years
The government has told the School Teachers’ Review Body how much teachers should receive up to 2029