Transport provision for post-16 students in England
Date: 02.10.2018This House of Commons library briefing outlines the arrangements for transport to education and training for students between the ages of 16 to 19....
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Grammar schools in England
Date: 02.10.2018This Commons Library briefing paper provides an outline of the current position relating to grammar schools and proposed Government reforms. It covers England only. The paper also outlines recent support and opposition to the...
READAttainment for Pupil Premium pupils lower in 2018
Date: 28.09.2018Data from 1,670 schools in the FFT Key Stage 4 Early Results Service shows a reverse trend in PP attainment this year....
READReturns to a degree
Date: 27.09.2018This House of Commons library briefing looks at the returns of participation in higher education and the benefits of higher education for individuals and society in the context of the rise in participation in higher education, changes in...
READLearning Disability
Date: 27.09.2018House of Commons Library briefing on policies and services for people with a learning disability in England....
READWhat if there's no Brexit deal?
Date: 27.09.2018What could happen if the EU and UK negotiators don't agree a withdrawal agreement in time and the UK has to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 without one - and with no framework for future relations either? This paper looks at how such a...
READSuicide Prevention Policy and Strategy
Date: 27.09.2018This House of Commons Library briefing paper examines suicide prevention policies and strategies throughout the UK. It outlines national and local approaches to prevention policy in England, as well as Scotland, Wales, and Northern...
READ2018 annual report on education spending in England
Date: 17.09.2018School sixth forms have faced budget cuts of 21% per student since their peak in 2010–11, while total school spending per pupil has fallen by 8% in real terms since 2009–10 ...
READSecondary school choice in England
Date: 17.09.2018The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published new analysis looking at how parents choose which secondary schools to send their children to in England....
READ2018 KS2 results summary
Date: 17.09.2018KS2 results showed an improved performance overall this year, though substantial variations remain between LAs, while girls continued to outperform boys in reading and writing....
READLessons in Austerity
Date: 17.09.2018A survey of 12,120 school support staff across the UK by UNISON revealed the extent to which school funding reductions have impacted on this sector of the workforce. It paints a bleak picture....
READNational funding formula delays
Date: 13.09.2018The DfE have analysed LAs' block funding and found that most of them are almost doing NFF, so have delayed the real thing...
READThe teacher labour market in England: shortages, subject...
Date: 30.08.2018Increases in non-specialist teachers, problems with recruitment and retention, declining uptake at GCSE in shortage subjects, unaffordable pay rises – where does it all end? EPI suggest centrally funded pay rises for shortage subjects....
READRewards don't improve school attendance
Date: 30.08.2018It's common for schools to offer rewards to motivate individual behaviour but, is this a successful method for improving attendance? Apparently not, say researchers: it makes otherwise poor attenders think they are better at it than...
READThe case for PE becoming a core subject
Date: 29.08.2018There are concerns about PE in schools with inadequate attention paid to it in primary ITT meaning that teachers often lack the confidence and competence to teach PE well and some primary schools hand it over to coaches....
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