The Latest Breaking News from Department for Education

More than 171,000 pupils missed at least half of possible school sessions in 2023/24, Department for Education statistics show.

The Department for Education has ‘limited understanding’ of how schools are spending £9.2 billion of disadvantage-related funding, a report has said.

National Education Union members across 32 sixth form colleges in England will stage their first walkout with two more days planned for next week.

The findings come after a Labour MP called for a legal requirement to be introduced so schools in England are mobile-free zones.

The Department for Education consultation into a review of curriculum and assessment closes this week.

The total number of approved special access arrangements for GCSE, AS and A-level exams rose by 12.3% in the past year, according to Ofqual data.

The Department for Education (DfE) does not have a strategy to tackle the problem, a report from the National Audit Office has warned

He struggled to answer a question over child allowance rates in media interviews to promote Tory plans to extend the child benefit system

The latest figures released by Department for Education show a stark rise in rates of school suspension, where a child is not allowed to attend the school for a set time, typically on disciplinary grounds. Suspensions are up 31% in spring 2022-23 from the same period the previous year.