Schools

RAAC: Schools told to prepare pupil evacuation plans

Leaked documents show DfE staff are calling schools to ensure plans are in place to take RAAC buildings out...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

DfE moves ahead with e-register plan amid attendance crackdown

Electronic register mandate gives education secretary direct access to live absence rates

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

OCR admits controversial GCSE computer science paper was ‘more difficult’

But top results remained higher than pre-Covid levels after grade boundaries were lowered

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

DfE to investigate contractor after three schools close new buildings

Pupils will start the new academic year in temporary classrooms and at different schools amid safety fears

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

100 primaries will get £2k grants for chess sets and tutorials

Schools in poorer areas to benefit from £250k investment, but scheme will reach just 0.6% of settings

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

TRA overturns its own decision to ban head after cheating scandal

Malcolm Drakes had 'excessively' assisted SATs pupils, but successfully appealed his ban over error by agency

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

DfE pilots second enrichment scheme, but with far less cash

Just £2.7m for scheme to support schools to 'co-design' enrichment offer, after £21m predecessor programme flourished

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams, Schools

The Great 2023 Grade Deflation: 7 things you need to know

Schools Week looks at how the plunge back to pre-pandemic grades will impact students and university places this year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Extent of classes taught by non-specialist teachers revealed

More than one in five physics classes this year were taught by a teacher without a relevant degree

Amy Walker
Amy Walker