The Department for Education is responsible for education and children’s services. Find out about the academies programme which provides schools with greater freedoms to innovate and raise standards.
Announcement that qualifications counting in Performance Tables will be reduced from 3,175 to 125.
Press notice 31 January 2012
Press notice setting out the secondary school performance tables for GCSE and A level exams.
Press notice 26 January 2012
Thousands of primary schools have already signed up to spend more than £7.7 million on new phonics products and training to drive up their pupils’ standards of reading, new Department for Education figures show today.
Press notice 19 January 2012
Education Secretary Michael Gove today welcomed a commitment from Barclays to offer their expertise and support to schools across England.
Press notice 18 January 2012
Information about qualifications which will be recognised in School and College Performance Tables from 2014 onwards.
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