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Jewish pupils face ‘regular and hostile abuse’

Former Ofsted chief highlights the ‘extraordinary’ security measures required in Jewish faith schools as he reveals the interim findings from his review into antisemitism in education settings

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Schools can only use ‘quality-assured’ tutoring providers from September

The move has been broadly welcomed by heads, though the DfE has been urged to ensure there are enough providers available

Summer-born admissions plans dropped by DfE

Proposed legislation to allow the parents of summer-born children to automatically admit them to a Reception class at the age of 5 has since been shelved

KS2 Sats: Only 1% of schools achieved DfE’s national 2030 target, study finds

Exclusive: New analysis also reveals the regions experiencing the biggest fall in those reaching the expected standard at key stage 2 Sats during the pandemic

School energy costs data delayed by ‘political events’, says DfE

Exclusive: Schools finished filling in a survey setting out how much they are paying for gas and electricity in June, but they are yet to see the results

Teacher recruitment: Why ‘nothing is going to save us’

How much worse could the teacher recruitment problems possibly get? Matilda Martin digs into the latest ITT data to reveal the outlook for September and beyond

DfE ‘has put schools on the brink of a full-blown funding crisis’

Five education unions issue a joint statement condemning the government's handling of teacher pay rises for 2022-23

Primary schools won’t have to publish 2022 Sats results

Heads welcome clarification following the DfE's decision not to produce key stage 2 performance tables this year

Key stage 1: Decision to scrap Sats from 2023 ‘welcome’, say heads

Schools told Covid pandemic has led to a delay in key stage 1 Sats becoming non-statutory

Welsh teacher pay to rise by 5% across the board this year

A further rise of 3.5% is planned for next year, but teaching unions react angrily

‘Unfunded’ teacher pay rise will put schools in deficit, warn leaders

Experienced teachers will be given a 5 per cent pay increase in September – but this is higher than many school leaders had budgeted for

Exclusion charter could expose pupils to ‘harassment’, says behaviour tsar

Southwark Council has encouraged teachers to take a 'trauma-informed' approach to pupil behaviour, but Tom Bennett has criticised the policy

School holiday pay ruling could affect thousands of staff

Case could 'open floodgates' for term-time workers to demand more holiday pay from schools, say lawyers

Teacher pay: threat of strikes across the UK

'A perfect storm’ of simultaneous strike action across the four UK nations is brewing over teacher pay, warns Scottish teaching union

Food tech becoming ‘too expensive to teach’ as inflation soars

Exclusive: Subject leads warn they are worried that the rising cost of ingredients could lead to schools cutting practical lessons

Nick Weller named new CEO at Academy Transformation Trust

Luke Sparkes will take over as new chief executive of Dixons having helped the trust establish new free schools

Ofsted criticises schools for over-focusing on exams

Eight Ofsted findings on how schools have been helping pupils to recover from Covid disruption to their learning

Threat of heads’ industrial action over ‘inadequate’ pay award

Headteacher union leaders also warn that the lack of funding for the teacher pay rises could lead to schools making redundancies

Experienced teacher pay to rise by 5%

Announcement comes after the teachers' pay review body recommended a higher pay rise than the DfE had originally proposed

School cuts ‘increasingly inevitable’ with 1.9% funding rise

Union leaders have said that funding increases are not adequate given rising inflation levels

More school libraries likely to come under threat next year

A Scottish council has cut the librarian posts in all secondaries – and there has been a 12% reduction in posts nationwide since 2018

Tutoring take-up soars after DfE ‘besieges’ schools

Four in five schools are using the government's National Tutoring Programme after 'pressurising' calls and threat of league tables from the DfE

Revealed: Winning National Tutoring Programme bids

Who's running the government's tutoring scheme next year?

Ofsted visits during heatwave ‘entirely inappropriate’

Ofsted confirms to 91¶¶Òõ that school inspections have gone ahead today despite the red Met Office warning of extreme heat

Disadvantage gap wider in Wales than England

Students from poorer backgrounds in Wales were almost two years behind their peers pre-pandemic, finds new analysis