The latest round of colleges to receive money from the government’s £1.5 billion Further Education Capital Transformation Fund have been announced.

In partnership with Micro:bit Educational Foundation, Nominet and the Scottish government, 57,000 BBC micro:bit devices will be donated to UK primary schools, alongside teaching resources and online Continuing Professional Development courses.   

eEnergy has signed an exclusive agreement with EO Charging to deliver EV charging to the UK education sector, with initial customers including the Bellevue Place Education Trust

A new report has exposed the lack of diversity on school governing boards in England, revealing the majority of school governors and trustees to be white, older, and educated to at least graduate degree level.

The Department for Education has announced that all National Tutoring Programme funding will go direct to schools to simplify the programme and reach as many pupils as possible.

Special schools, alternative provision and SEND units in mainstream schools will no longer be advised to test twice weekly for Covid from Friday, the government has confirmed.

The first year of the programme, which replaced the UK’s participation in the Erasmus+ scheme, has seen UK students embark on journeys to over 100 countries.

Scotland’s schools will receive more than half a billion pounds over the next four years to help close the attainment gap.

The DfE has said that early career teachers absent for reasons related to COVID-19 will not have their induction period extended.

The DFE proposes to make alternative provision an integral part of local SEND systems by requiring new SEND partnerships to deliver an alternative provision service focused on early intervention.

The government has published its SEND and alternative provision green paper, which sets out its vision for a single, national SEND and alternative provision (AP) system that will introduce new standards in the quality of support given to children

As part of a series of new measures outlined in the Schools Whitepaper, schools will be asked to offer a minimum school week of 32.5 hours by September 2023.

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