Childcare applications for parents of 9-month-olds to open 12 May
Places boosted even further with new measures to support childminders, and funding rates confirmed for all childcare providers ahead of historic rollout
Updated: Fri Mar 15 2024
How we're supporting university students with their mental health
Going to university is a fun and exciting time for most students - but it comes with unique challenges and stresses. We believe that all students' mental health and wellbeing should be properly supported during their time at university. There ...
Updated: Thu Mar 14 2024
Education Secretary addresses the ASCL Annual Conference
Gillian Keegan recently (08 March 2024) addressed school and college leaders at the ASCL Annual Conference in Liverpool.
Updated: Mon Mar 11 2024
Minister Halfon Speech for Landex Conference
Minister Halfon recently delivered a speech about land-based colleges, and the difference they make at a local and national level across the country.
Updated: Thu Mar 07 2024
How we're encouraging children at our school to read for pleasure
Liz Kenny, english hub lead, and Vanessa Hill, headteacher, at Whiston Worrygoose Primary school in Rotherham talk about their approach to encouraging reading, and the benefits it's brought their pupils.
Updated: Mon Mar 04 2024
Using Get help buying for schools to buy cleaning services for my trust
Lisa Jones is Director of Finance and Resources for the Consortium Trust. In this blog post, Lisa shares her experience of using Get help buying for schools to buy cleaning services for 7 schools in her trust.
Updated: Mon Mar 04 2024
Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2024 speech
Minister Robert Halfon's virtual speech to the Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2024 in Birmingham (27 February 2024).
Updated: Thu Feb 29 2024
New regulations for schools in next stage of attendance drive
Every state school in England will now share their daily attendance registers across the education sector.
Updated: Thu Feb 29 2024
Cyber security for schools - the benefits of the risk protection arrangement (RPA)
All school leaders, trustees, headteachers and governors are responsibility for making sure measures are in place that will help reduce the risk of a cybercrime.
Updated: Mon Feb 19 2024
Government launches crackdown on mobile phones in schools
Schools will receive new guidance on prohibiting mobile phone use during the school day.
Updated: Mon Feb 19 2024
Government confirms plans to permanently remove RAAC from all schools and colleges in England
Schools and colleges to receive funding to permanently remove reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
Updated: Thu Feb 08 2024
What we're doing to permanently remove RAAC from schools and colleges
This article was first published on 31 August and has been updated to reflect the latest information. Nothing is more important than the health and safety of children and staff. This is why we changed our approach to managing a ...
Updated: Thu Feb 08 2024
Get help buying for schools turns 2 and celebrates supporting over 2,000 schools and trusts
As Get help buying for schools celebrates its second birthday, Jane Davies, Head of Schools Commercial Operations at the Department for Education, reflects on what has been achieved so far, and the future aims of the service.
Updated: Wed Feb 07 2024
How to find and apply for an apprenticeship
Apprenticeships are a brilliant option for people of all ages to launch their careers, upskill, or retrain in a huge range of exciting industries - from space engineering to healthcare to advertising and beyond. There are thousands of apprenticeship vacancies ...
Updated: Wed Feb 07 2024
Everything you need to know about apprenticeships in early years and how to find one
Early years educators play a vital and rewarding role in helping children get the best start for life and preparing them to begin school. There are several routes into a role in early years, including apprenticeships. Becoming an apprentice enables ...
Updated: Tue Feb 06 2024
How we're striving to get more girls into computing
Oliver Brotherhood, Curriculum Lead for Computing and Computer Science at Penrice Academy, discusses the importance of adopting a whole-school approach to addressing gender imbalance in computer science.
Updated: Tue Feb 06 2024
Inspiring and enabling pupil and learner voice
This week is Children's Mental Health Week and the theme this year is 'My Voice Matters'. Three mental health leads share how their schools are enabling pupil voice within their wider whole school and college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Updated: Mon Feb 05 2024
New teaching apprenticeship set to transform pathway to classroom
New teacher degree apprenticeship will support schools to recruit and retain the excellent teachers they need in vital subjects including maths.
Updated: Mon Feb 05 2024
New teaching apprenticeship set to transform pathway to classroom
New teacher degree apprenticeship will support schools to recruit and retain the excellent teachers they need in vital subjects including maths.
Updated: Mon Feb 05 2024
Childcare recruitment campaign launched
Brand new recruitment campaign for early years workers launches today across TV, cinema, online, radio and out of home advertising.
Updated: Fri Feb 02 2024
What we're doing to recruit more early years workers including trialling a £1k sign-on bonus
We're taking important steps to deliver the expanded 30 hours free childcare scheme for working parents from when their child turns nine-months-old until they start school, saving them £6,500 a year. Over 100,000 parents of two-year-olds have already registered their children ...
Updated: Fri Feb 02 2024
Use the National Tutoring Programme to prepare your pupils for exams
Hall Mead School in Havering have been using small group tutoring through the National Tutoring Programme (NTP), and it's proven to be effective in boosting pupils' preparedness for exams.
Updated: Wed Jan 31 2024
New framework to support trainee and early career teachers
The Department for Education has today (30 January) announced a new framework which will help ensure high quality teaching and improve pupil outcomes.
Updated: Tue Jan 30 2024
Disposable vape ban and what it means for young people
The number of children using vapes has tripled in the last three years and there is strong evidence to suggest that cheap and easy-to-use disposable vapes are partly to blame. Our research shows that in 2023, around 69 per cent ...
Updated: Mon Jan 29 2024
How we ensure young people continue to be taught about the Holocaust and the lessons it teaches us today
Every January we stop to reflect on Holocaust Memorial Day. Education has a vital role in eradicating antisemitism and making sure young people are aware of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Unless we all actively try to understand the horrors ...
Updated: Fri Jan 26 2024