Jun 11, 2024 · The Conservatives have pledged to protect “day-to-day schools spending in real-terms per pupil” and legislate to ban mobile phones from classrooms if they win the election. Rishi Sunak today launched his party’s “bold” election manifesto. However many of the school’s policies are not new, such as the Advanced British Standard (ABS) …

Dec 18, 2024 · Thousands of secondary pupils are facing “significant disruption” after the government scrapped its state school Latin programme mid-year as it seeks to plug a fiscal black hole. In a letter seen by Schools Week, the Department for Education has informed schools it is terminating its Latin Excellence Programme (LEP) in February. The £4 million scheme was supposed to run until 2026, but ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Schools bill: All 39 proposed policies (and when they’ll start) A comprehensive list of EVERY policy in Labour's children's wellbeing and schools bill

Nov 5, 2024 · The government will use a new RAG rating intervention model to target support to schools that need it, with turnaround leaders wanted to commission the help – and draw up new “local area priorities”. Department for Education officials have announced further details today of how their regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams will work (formerly known as regional ...

Jun 17, 2024 · The Reform UK party has pledged a “patriotic school curriculum”, to review the content of history lessons and “ban transgender ideology in schools” in its manifesto published today. The party, led by Nigel Farage and which one poll said have overtaken the Conservatives, set out its “contract to the British people” today. Farage …

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Jun 13, 2024 · Labour has pledged in its manifesto to “modernise the school curriculum”, but wants to “build on” the success of “knowledge-rich syllabuses”. In what is likely to be seen as a further effort to reassure traditionalists in education, the party also said its curriculum review would consider the “right balance of assessment methods whilst protecting the important role of ...

Dec 18, 2024 · The proposed children’s wellbeing and schools bill would give ministers a new legal power to intervene where academy trusts break rules, while flexi-schooled children would also fall under new council registers. Government published its full children’s wellbeing and schools bill yesterday. Headline changes include allowing councils to open schools again, ending the automatic academisation ...

Dec 10, 2024 · The government has said a 2.8 per cent teacher pay rise “would be appropriate” for 2025-26. In its evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body, the Department for Education said this level of award “would maintain the competitiveness of teachers’ pay, despite the challenging financial backdrop the government is facing”. It comes after teachers were awarded a rise of 5.5 per cent ...

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