A new requirement introduced by the Department for Education means intensive training and practice (ITAP) grants will only ...

The rise of evidence-informed practice has been one of the most positive developments in education over recent decades. The UK is home to cutting-edge researchers whose work around education and ...

Almost two years to the day since becoming education secretary, Bridget Phillipson lost what she once described as “the best job in government”. The Houghton and Sunderland South MP presided over ...

Ministers have urged schools to continue to check eligibility for free school meals under a planned expansion of the scheme after the planned September deadline. From the new term, all pupils who have ...

For me, the focus schools must give to looked-after and previously looked-after children is not a strategic bolt on or a compliance requirement. It is a moral imperative. Children who are, or have ...

According to a recent independent inquiry, nearly two-thirds of white working-class young people leave school without the qualifications, and often initial skills, they need to thrive in their adult ...

In the early 2000s, every school in England was encouraged to have a coordinator in charge of the government’s national gifted and talented programme. While the programme itself was imperfect, it did ...

New fully funded training courses on supporting pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) will be on offer by autumn next year. The Department for Education has shared details of ...

Issues with key stage 2 SATs continue to rumble on following results day. School leaders’ union NAHT said members had raised concerns about the marks awarded in individual papers. Some schools have ...

State school pupils due to take Latin at GCSE see funding for teachers and trips pulled mid-year as DfE wields axe ...

Ex-journalist Paul Waugh has been appointed as an education minister by prime minister Andy Burnham, while Olivia Bailey has ...

The schools minister Georgia Gould has been re-appointed as a Department for Education minister in Andy Burnham’s government, ...