December 2021

Cabinet Secretary looking into Department for Education’s Christmas party

The cabinet secretary will investigate a party held for "two dozen" employees at the Department for Education during lockdown last December. DfE permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood said her department will investigate the earlier meeting held on December 10 at her department. Williamson delivered a few words to the roughly two dozen people in attendance, many [...]

How does Plan B affect FE?

As planned, the Ministry of Education told principals and CEOs that students should prepare for January exams and assessments. As part of this morning's "urgent" update, the DfE also confirmed that Ofsted will suspend all inspections scheduled for the next week, with the exception of inspections related to protection. On the DfE website a few [...]