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Widespread cuts to school budgets means schools in the constituencies of education ministers will be £7.4m poorer in the next financial year in real terms

Department for Education confirms briefs of new ministers after a reshuffle that saw Nick Gibb, Robert Halfon and Gillian Keegan return to the team

A school struggling with attendance sends up to six cars with experienced teachers out every morning to knock on pupils' doors

Plan to lift the ban on new grammar schools looks dead in the water after new education secretary says she iss focused on pupils in 'comprehensive education'

Lee Elliot Major recently confessed to a group of headteachers that he’d just walked past a London train station where he’d slept rough in his yout

ICO reprimands DfE over 'serious breach' of the law which allowed a firm providing age-verification for gambling companies access to pupil data

The fight to shape Labour’s education policies has burst into life, with so-called 'progressive' educationists and 'traditional' teachers battling it out

Government officials are working on plans to package up 'clusters' of schools eligible for government intervention to be moved en-masse into big academy trusts

Nineteen ministers have held office at the DfE in just over a year – with those resigning or booted out entitled to more than £100,000 in severance pay

Vulnerable families who fear sending their children back into the classroom have railed against the label of 'ghost kids', saying they are 'being ghosted'