Government will scrap flagship edtech demonstrator programme after just over two years, claiming it is no longer needed as schools reopen after Covid closures
Primary schools should be banned from excluding children and positive Ofsted ratings withheld from non-'inclusive' schools, says ex-children's commissioner
A government teacher training adviser has described setbacks with the flagship early career framework (ECF) as 'teething problems' that can be fixed by 'tweaks'
on what the teachers were saying. some pupils here have had such severe toothache they ve had to leave lessons to get pain relief while some have had to miss days of school entirely. we ve had to take students to the hospital because the tooth decay has been that bad in their teeth. having to intervene at this level is taking resources away from the rest of the school. and, like i say, frustration when it doesn t really feel it should fall with schools. round about six days, i felt really normal. it felt a bit odd just for a few days, but. cain, in his first year of gcses, has been suffering for months. it was like a massive crack in my tooth, so it really hurt every time i got some food, or summat stuck inside of it. and then i couldn t really concentrate on the things i was doing because it would really hurt. we were looking for a dentist. we went to one in elland, but they said that i d either have to have an extraction, or like a cap in my tooth.
Ministers plan to name and shame schools not using tutoring cash under a new push to 'improve transparency and support uptake' of the flailing flagship scheme