The governing body's role in spending, monitoring and...
Date: 29.08.2018Effective PP spending: accounting for how every £ of the PP budget is spent; having clear criteria and clarity are essentials...
READInsights
Keep up to date with the latest developments in education in schools. Not only the facts, but how schools are responding to them.
GCSE results 2018 – What is happening with the reformed...
Date: 28.08.2018It looks as though the pass rates in the 2018 reformed GCSEs have improved at the same rate as for all subjects overall in England...
READPrimary phase value added measures in performance tables
Date: 28.08.2018Three main issues with the Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 value added measures...
READSecondary phase value added measures in performance tables
Date: 28.08.2018Four significant issues with Progress 8...
READCost of university courses in England
Date: 27.08.2018This House of Commons briefing paper analyses the cost of higher education provision and raises issues around the value for money of higher education, the existence of a higher education market and how tuition fee funding is spent by...
READThe Brexit White Paper on future relations and...
Date: 27.08.2018The Government published its White Paper on future relations between the UK and the EU on 12 July. It envisages a 'common rulebook' to facilitate 'frictionless' trade, and among other things, UK cooperation in security matters, a...
READRelationships and Sex Education in Schools (England)
Date: 27.08.2018This House of Commons Library briefing provides an overview of the legislation and guidance currently in place regarding sex and relationship education (SRE) in schools, and also outlines related reviews and proposals in Parliament....
READSchool meals and nutritional standards (England)
Date: 27.08.2018The main recent policy developments regarding school meals in England, including the revised school food standards and provision of free school meals....
READPersonal, social, health and economic education in...
Date: 27.08.2018This House of Commons Library briefing sets out the rules relating to the provision of personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in England, as well as introducing the debates about the quality of provision and the...
READChildren and young people’s mental health – policy,...
Date: 27.08.2018House of Commons Library briefing on children and young people’s mental health policy...
READThe STEM gender gap: what can we do about it?
Date: 22.08.2018Only dramatic intervention will change girls’ low take-up of physics and maths: IFS...
READInequality in schools
Date: 21.08.2018Labour analysis finds “shameful” inequality in England’s education system...
READUniversity aspirations 2018
Date: 16.08.2018The proportion of young people who think it’s important to go to university is at it’s lowest since 2010....
READFree For All? Analysing Free Schools in England, 2018
Date: 16.08.2018Only one third of free schools set up to date were found to demonstrate a novel approach...
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