Government confirms above inflation pay award for teachers
School teachers to receive fully funded 5.5% pay award.
Updated: Tue Jul 30 2024
Teacher pay: everything you need to know about the 2024 pay award
The Education Secretary has accepted the recommendations of the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) and confirmed the teacher pay award for 2024-25, setting out what school teachers in England can expect to be paid next academic year. The STRB is ...
Updated: Tue Jul 30 2024
Government watchdog to help stabilise university finances
Interim Office for Students chair appointed as Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 is stopped.
Updated: Mon Jul 29 2024
Free Speech Act: what you need to know
In 2023, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act became law. Due to concerns from vulnerable groups about how the rules might harm student welfare, we are stopping the implementation of the Act. This means that although the Act received ...
Updated: Fri Jul 26 2024
Bridget Phillipsons speech at the Embassy Education Conference
Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson recently (23 July 2024) delivered a speech at the Embassy Education Conference.
Updated: Thu Jul 25 2024
Skills England to transform opportunities and drive growth
New body launched to bring together key partners to meet the skills needs of the next decade across all regions.
Updated: Tue Jul 23 2024
Government launches Curriculum and Assessment Review
Leading education expert, Professor Becky Francis CBE, named as review chair.
Updated: Fri Jul 19 2024
The King's Speech 2024: What does it mean for education?
During the State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday 17 July, the King set out the government's priorities for the coming months. This included commitments relating to education, including children's social care, schools, and further education. Together, these important changes will ...
Updated: Thu Jul 18 2024
Sir Kevan Collins appointed at DfE as Non-Executive Board Member
Sir Kevan to provide scrutiny and advice on government's delivery of high and rising standards in schools.
Updated: Wed Jul 10 2024
Education Secretary begins push to recruit 6,500 new teachers
Education Secretary takes first steps to reset relationship with teaching profession and recruit 6,500 new teachers
Updated: Mon Jul 08 2024
Letter to the education workforce from Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has written a letter to the education workforces to make clear the valuable role they will play in the government's agenda for change. To all working in early years, children's services, schools, further and higher education, ...
Updated: Mon Jul 08 2024
Free childcare: How we are tackling the cost of childcare
England has some of the highest quality childcare provision in the world, with 96% of early years settings rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding. But we recognise that childcare is also one of the biggest costs facing working families ...
Updated: Fri Jul 05 2024
How reducing the cap on faith school admissions will help to raise standards
Faith groups run some of the best schools in the country, including in some of the most disadvantaged areas. Current rules mean that religious free schools are only allowed to offer 50% of places to pupils based on faith. Some ...
Updated: Fri Jul 05 2024
How to register as a childminder and receive a grant worth up to £1,200
We're making the biggest investment by a UK government into childcare in history. Parents have the flexibility to choose how they spend their government-funded hours - and many are opting to use childminders. Being a childminder is a rewarding role where you can ...
Updated: Fri Jul 05 2024
New RSHE guidance: What it means for sex education lessons in schools
Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) is a subject taught at both primary and secondary school. In 2020, Relationships and Sex Education was made compulsory for all secondary school pupils in England and Health Education compulsory for all pupils ...
Updated: Fri Jul 05 2024
5 top tips on how to keep calm during exam season
Many young people will be sitting exams over the coming months, including GCSEs, A Levels, and VTQs. We know that exam season can be stressful. Here are few tips and resources for young people, parents and teachers, to help support ...
Updated: Mon Jun 03 2024
Children at heart of D-Day 80 with ultimate history lesson
30 children visited 10 Downing Street and HMS Belfast for the ultimate D-Day history lesson, transported on a Second World War-era red London bus.
Updated: Thu May 23 2024
Education Secretary speech at Education World Forum 2024
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan's address at the Education World Forum in London (20 May 2024).
Updated: Tue May 21 2024
Risk protection arrangement (RPA): a decade of supporting schools and trusts
It's been 10 years since the DfE introduced its alternative to commercial insurance, the Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA). DfE Commercial Director Susan Dawson has been involved in RPA since inception. In this blog post, Susan looks back at what the service has delivered, and continues to deliver for schools and trusts.
Updated: Tue May 21 2024
A whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing: Part 1
Two mental health leads talk about how they work alongside the senior leadership team to develop a whole school approach, to supporting mental health and wellbeing at school.
Updated: Fri May 17 2024
Age limits introduced to protect children in RSHE
New age ratings to be introduced on Relationships, Sex and Health Education content in schools to ensure it is appropriately and sensitively taught.
Updated: Thu May 16 2024
Childcare applications for parents of 9-month-olds now open
Hundreds of thousands of families set to benefit as working parents of 9-month-olds can now apply for government-funded childcare for first time.
Updated: Mon May 13 2024
Keeping pupils active to support their wellbeing
CEO of The Consortium Trust, Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne shares insight about the Trust's active and outdoor based curriculum.
Updated: Mon May 13 2024
Englands World Leading Attendance Drive Continues
Next phase of DfE's world-leading attendance drive will provide new data for schools to help them spot trends in children's attendance for earlier intervention.
Updated: Fri May 10 2024
Breaking barriers: School's drive to close the attainment gap using tutoring
Executive headteacher at The Green Way Academy, Simon Bush, shares his experience of using the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to support disadvantaged pupils during the school holidays.
Updated: Thu May 09 2024