State schools and colleges will be forced to impose a strict cap on the number of qualifications taken by each pupil as part of a shake-up of 16-to-19 provision. (more…)
One national tutoring agency, Exam Confidence, told the Guardian it charged schools up to £1,400 a day. Another, the Kip McGrath Education Centre in Portsmouth, one of the country’s leading tuition firms, said schools were paying at least £1,000 a year for its services. Both said the number of state schools registering for its services was growing. (more…)
Research published by Ofqual found that just over half of heads and teachers now fully trust the outcome of exams sat by more than 600,000 schoolchildren at the age of 16. (more…)
The Department for Education’s annual workforce survey of teacher and school staff showed a slight recovery in teacher numbers from their post-austerity low the previous year but the improvement was dwarfed by a 6% rise in teaching assistants employed in primary and secondary schools within the space of a year. (more…)
In November 2012, 899,000 teachers, teaching assistants, support and auxiliary staff were employed, compared with 568,000 in spring 2000. (more…)
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, is in talks with the Treasury about transferring money earmarked for the Department of Health and the Department for Education and using it to ease the impact of cuts on the Ministry of Defence. (more…)
In the last week, the fury building among parents over Roke Primary and the Government’s intention to turn it into an academy has reached breaking point. (more…)
Officials at the Department for Education (DfE) have begun an inquiry into alleged hardline Islamic views linked to the Northern Lights Free School in Halifax. (more…)
A chain of happy children trail each other joyfully around the garden dodging in and out of wigwams, wooden structures and plants. (more…)
In a letter, associations representing schools and colleges have asked Michael Gove to redress a growing funding gap. (more…)
The union said staff had been told six of the DfE’s 12 offices would be shut, putting about 500 jobs at risk. (more…)
The next comprehensive spending review – where the government decides what public spending it will cut and what it will keep – is due on the 26 June 2013. (more…)
A Public Accounts Committee report describes a system peppered with overspends and errors, but subject to little oversight. (more…)
The Government today underlined its commitment to high-quality vocational and occupational education by announcing a new Technical Baccalaureate measure. (more…)
The tech bacc – technical baccalaureate – will exist in name only, with the Department for Education stressing it is not itself a qualification but “a performance measure marking achievement by young people aged 16 to 19″. (more…)
