In response to calls for SATs to be discontinued, the Education Secretary Damian Hinds wrote an op-ed for the Sunday Telegraph on 21 April, setting out the importance of primary school assessments to ensure that children are developing and progressing in education.
The Key Stage 2 tests help to ensure primary schools are teaching children the fundamentals of reading, writing and maths, and help reassure parents that schools are laying the foundations for their children to succeed at secondary school and beyond.
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at international students, knife crime and new funding for educational psychologists and college improvements respectively.
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at the launch of the new International Education Strategy and the Relationships and Sex Education curriculum.
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at media stories on maths anxiety, the publication of our new Higher Education Principles, and the new provision announced in the Spring Statement to tackle period poverty in schools.
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at World Mental Health day, and a number of new measures announced by the government to tackle mental health issues. We also focus on how to close attainment gaps across the country.
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