School News

• Nick Gibb at education committee: 7 things we learned October 20, 2020
  Schools minister Nick Gibb has suggested some grade inflation will be allowed again next year to cater for lockdown learning losses, but revealed he’s more worried about making exams fair for pupils in worst-hit areas who are more likely to have missed school since September. Education select committee MPs grilled Gibb for over two hours…
• DfE’s revamped attendance stats reveal nearly half of secondary schools have pupils self-isolating October 20, 2020
  Around half of all state-funded secondary schools have pupils self-isolating, with 409,000 pupils not attending school for covid related reasons last week.  The Department for Education’s weekly attendance data has revealed the true scale of covid disruption for the first time after Schools Week revealed loopholes in its reporting system.  Since Monday, October 12, all…
• Profile: Kate Green October 20, 2020
  Three months into the job of shadow education secretary, Kate Green reveals she is a ‘policy geek’ who is most naturally at home advocating for others… In many ways, the boots Kate Green must fill as shadow education secretary are big ones. Both her immediate predecessors have powerful personal stories about social mobility that appealed…