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Ministers urged to attend crunch talks to avoid Oak legal action
Government talks with BESA and other bodies bringing a judicial review over Oak National Academy have not yet found a way to halt the legal action, Tes understands
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DfE to reissue school funding calculation after error
Gillian Keegan orders review after a mistake was spotted in the 2024-25 National Funding Formula allocation
Teaching quality efforts ‘crushed’ by rising poverty
Next prime minister must create taskforce to fix child poverty so schools can focus on educational impact, says former DfE senior adviser Sam Freedman
VAT loopholes make Labour private school plan ‘tricky’
After-school clubs and reduced VAT on boarding school students could reduce tax bill for independent schools if Labour pushes ahead with fee levy, say experts
Lack of exam data ‘put Ofsted under pressure’
Chief inspector shares her experiences and tells academy trust sector conference that MAT inspections are inevitable
Covid inquiry: ‘Mistake’ to keep schools shut
Former children’s tsar tells inquiry the government failed to ‘realistically prepare’ for Covid lockdowns and mitigate their long-term impact on pupils
Tes News podcast conference special: The end of A levels?
Join the Tes News team as we discuss the prime minister's plan for a new post-16 qualification, the Advanced British Standard, and look ahead to the Labour Party's conference in Liverpool
Barran: Each school should get a DfE attendance ‘deep dive’
The academies minister said a 'more detailed diagnostic on the root causes of non-attendance' is needed
DfE drawing up country-wide MAT growth plans
The DfE is looking at producing subregional plans for areas such as London, setting out how it expects trusts to grow, a regional director has revealed
‘Outstanding’ grade ‘out of reach’ for ‘good’ schools
Tes analysis showing huge fall in 'good' schools being given the top rating by Ofsted reveals how it is now a 'binary' inspection grading system, warn leaders
Fears catch-up progress will be lost as schools face costs struggle
Some schools are questioning the point of getting tutoring 'up and running' when funds are set to disappear next year
Labour Party conference: What can teachers expect?
After Rishi Sunak revealed his big plan for post-16 education at his party's conference, how will the opposition respond?
Heads question supervised school toothbrushing plan
Labour has said it will introduce supervised toothbrushing in schools as part of plans to improve the nation’s oral health
MSPs reject plans to improve disabled students’ post-school experience
Teacher workload cited as a key reason for rejecting the proposals – but the Labour MSP spearheading the bill says disabled students have been left ‘high and dry’
Sunak’s A-level plan drawn up on ‘back of envelope’
Shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell accuses Rishi Sunak of announcing a 'back-of-the-envelope policy' while school roofs are 'literally propped up'
End P1 SNSAs, says primary leaders’ body
Primary headteachers say P1 literacy and numeracy standardised assessments are 'time consuming and onerous', and interfere with play-based approaches