The Welsh Government has announced £46m to help post-16 education and community learning providers reduce their carbon footprint and improve their digital connectivity.
Nearly four in five school leaders say mental health and wellbeing was the biggest challenge for their organisation in the last year, according to a new report, which highlights the scale of the mental health crisis facing schools.
Following calls from the Education Secretary for former teachers to temporarily return to the profession, data shows that 485 former teachers have signed up with agencies, and a further 100 Teach First alumni have also expressed interest.
Schools responded to the challenges caused by the pandemic by employing varying strategies targeting specific groups, a new report from the Department for Education has found.
Figures from the DfE show that over 300,000 tutoring courses through the National Tutoring Programme began last term, nearing the total figure for the previous academic year.
A NAHT poll reveals that more than a third (36%) of its members said they had more than 10% of their total staff absent on the first day of term due to Covid-related reasons.
Nadhim Zahawi has made an “absolute commitment” that exams would go ahead this month and during the summer despite, the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
There has been a record rise in obesity among children since the start of the pandemic, with latest data highlighting that one in 4 (27.7%) children of reception school age are overweight or obese; this rises to 4 in 10 (40.9%) in Year 6 (ages 10 to 11).