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

Tracey Cleverly, who co-founded and now leads the Learning Academy Partnership, has been at the trust through both successes and financial difficulties. Now, she’s an adviser on the government’s ...

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

Tackling persistent absence in English secondary schools continues to be a complex challenge. In 2024-25 nearly a quarter of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...