News | Closing the gap

'Appalling' – £7,400 free school meals cap has not increased in six years

Free School Meals

Getting interventions right: Popular EEF implementation guidance is revamped and updated

Closing the gap

Students lose 16 days of curriculum learning due to reading interventions

Literacy

One in five schools now operating food banks as cost of living bites

Poverty

Primary school exclusions link to secondary absence and GCSE attainment

Behaviour

Literacy fears: The disadvantaged pupils who don't own a single book

Poverty

Lessons learned: Research outlines tenets of effective tutoring provision

Tutoring

Reading and attendance biggest Pupil Premium barriers, schools say

Pupil Premium

'More versatile toolbox' needed to close growing looked after attainment gap

Looked-after children

Thousands of highly able disadvantaged students miss out on top grades

Examinations & Qualifications

Revealed: Top five reasons schools plan to drop the National Tutoring Programme

In the classroom

Only a quarter of 16-year-olds say they enjoy writing

Skills