Department for Education

The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed a number of changes to primary assessment. These were initially proposed in a consultation earlier this year.

The Department for Education has recently updated the information that schools maintained by their local authorities must publish on their websites.

On Thursday 14 September, Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening announced details of the new national funding formula for schools. This is the outcome of the second stage of the consultation, which closed in March, and follows July’s announcement of £1.3 billion additional funding for the core schools budget in each of the next two years.

The Department for Education has just published Factsheets showing:

• the new GCSE grading scale
• standard and strong pass marks and what this means for students, schools, parents and employers
• when the new grades will apply to different subjects