Report 11-plus results and link them to pupil data, say campaigners and academics
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11-plus Exams Results Grading Pupil data
  • Feb 12, 2021
DfE broke data-protection law, ICO investigation finds
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Data protection GDPR Pupil data Student data DfE
  • Oct 8, 2020
Department for Education’s handling of pupil data ruled illegal
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DfE GDPR Data protection Pupil data
  • Oct 7, 2020
DfE broke pupil data protection laws, damning ICO audit reveals
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Data protection DfE Pupil data GDPR
  • Oct 7, 2020
DfE broke the law on pupil data protection
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DfE Data protection GDPR Student data Pupil data
  • Oct 7, 2020
Cyber attacks, hacks and legal threats: Academy data breaches revealed
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Pupil data Cyber attacks
  • Sep 26, 2020
DfE has no FSM lockdown attendance data
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Free school meals Pupil data School attendance
  • Jul 21, 2020
School 'alarm bells' as elite unis ask for student data
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University admissions Pupil data
  • May 27, 2020
‘No individual data’ compromised during massive DfE breach, minister claims
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Data protection Pupil data GDPR
  • Jan 27, 2020
Data breach firm given access despite DfE probe
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Pupil data Data breach Data protection GDPR
  • Jan 24, 2020
DfE granted screening firm access to 28m learner records
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Data breach Data protection Pupil data GDPR
  • Jan 24, 2020
ESFA launches investigation after betting companies access data on 28 million children
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ESFA Pupil data DfE
  • Jan 20, 2020
ESFA launches investigation after betting companies access data on 28 million children
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Pupil data Gambling
  • Jan 20, 2020
Gambling companies used schools data on 28m children
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Gambling Pupil data GDPR Data protection
  • Jan 19, 2020
Gambling companies access data for 28 million children
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Gambling Pupil data
  • Jan 19, 2020
Betting firms were granted access to database of 28 million children
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Pupil data GDPR Data protection Gambling
  • Jan 19, 2020
Using pupil data to support teaching
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Pupil data
  • Jan 7, 2020
Scottish mother's horror after confidential information about her child shared at school assembly
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Pupil data SEND
  • Dec 18, 2019
Parent's anger after pupils' conditions shared at Brechin High School assembly
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Scotland Pupil data SEND
  • Dec 17, 2019
DfE facing action over 'wide ranging and serious' data protection breaches
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Data protection Pupil data
  • Nov 13, 2019
Department for Education flouted rules when it secretly shared pupil data with Home Office, says watchdog
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Pupil data Data protection
  • Nov 13, 2019
Department of Education criticised for secretly sharing children's data
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Pupil data Immigration GDPR
  • Nov 12, 2019
Liberty: ‘Secret’ Prevent database ‘destroys’ trust between teachers and pupils
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Prevent Pupil data Data collection
  • Oct 7, 2019
ICO receives hundreds of unnecessary school referrals as leaders struggle with GDPR
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ICO GDPR Data collection Pupil data
  • Jul 5, 2019
Uni regulator insists it has ‘no plans’ to share sensitive pupil data with private firms
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Regulation Pupil data NPD OfS Data protection
  • Jun 7, 2019
School data is now ridiculous: the DfE has lost its way
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DfE Pupil data
  • May 3, 2019
Schools warned not to share pupil data on Capita’s file transfer systems ‘until further notice’
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Capita Pupil data Data protection Cyber security
  • Apr 4, 2019
5 reasons why data is a waste of everyone's time
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Pupil data
  • Mar 2, 2019
Confused by school data? You’re not the only one
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Pupil data
  • Jan 15, 2019
Former head fined for unlawfully obtaining pupils’ data
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Pupil data
  • Dec 5, 2018
What Macbeth can tell us about data use in schools
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Pupil data
  • Dec 3, 2018
More than 700 school data breaches in a year
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Pupil data ICO
  • Nov 21, 2018
More than 700 school data breaches in a year
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Data protection Cyber security Pupil data
  • Nov 21, 2018
LAs and MATs should no longer request target setting data from schools
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Pupil data
  • Nov 13, 2018
Stats watchdog launches investigations into ministers’ ‘disingenuous’ use of data
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Pupil data Nick Gibb DfE
  • Oct 3, 2018
Make schools publish termly exclusions and leavers data, and 9 other recommendations from the education committee
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Pupil exclusions Alternative provision Pupil data
  • Jul 25, 2018
Capita admitted SIMS bug on day it was handed £109m primary testing contract
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Capita SIMS Primary Pupil data
  • Jul 20, 2018
Pupil data corrupted after bug hits Capita SIMS
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Pupil data Capita SIMS
  • Jul 17, 2018
Publication of school and pupil data for 2017
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DfE Pupil data
  • Jun 29, 2018
DfE: Schools ‘must no longer request’ pupil nationality data
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Pupil data Nationality
  • Jun 28, 2018
Date set for first new children’s mental health data in 14 years
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Mental health Pupil data
  • Jun 22, 2018
Putting students at the heart of data
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Students Pupil data
  • Jun 13, 2018
'Don't wait for permission to take control of data'
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Data collection Pupil data Headteachers' Roundtable
  • May 22, 2018
'Don't wait for permission to take control of data'
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Data collection Pupil data Headteachers' Roundtable
  • May 22, 2018
Greenwich University fined £120,000 for data breach
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Colleges Pupil data ICO
  • May 21, 2018
Government halts school pupil data sharing
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Data collection Pupil data National pupil database
  • May 16, 2018
Government halts data-sharing on pupils
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National pupil database Pupil data DfE
  • May 15, 2018
Sharing of school pupils' data put on hold
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Data collection DfE Pupil data National pupil database
  • May 15, 2018
Parents fear app is storing private data in the US on how their children behave
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Pupil data Data collection
  • Apr 28, 2018
ClassDojo is harvesting data on how British schoolchildren behave
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Pupil data Data collection
  • Apr 28, 2018
Daily roundup 10 April: Arts funding, nationality data, and royal wedding gifts
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Arts Funding Nationality Pupil data National pupil database
  • Apr 10, 2018
Schools no longer have to collect data on pupils’ nationality and country of birth
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National pupil database Pupil data Nationality DfE
  • Apr 10, 2018
Schools can stop listing nationalities of pupils
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National pupil database Pupil data Nationality DfE
  • Apr 10, 2018
Tories 'set to U-turn' over scheme that forces schools to collect data on immigrant pupils
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National pupil database Nationality Pupil data DfE
  • Apr 9, 2018
DfE set to axe pupil data-sharing deal with Home Office
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National pupil database Pupil data Pupil nationality DfE
  • Apr 9, 2018
Local authorities collecting sensitive pupil data without consent
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Pupil data Alternative provision Legal action Local authority
  • Jan 9, 2018
ESFA: privacy notice
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ESFA Funding Data collection Pupil data
  • Oct 13, 2017
Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
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DfE LAIT Pupil data
  • Sep 8, 2017
Parents urged to withhold personal data in latest school census targeting foreign-born children
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Independent School census Pupil data National pupil database Primary schools Secondary schools
  • May 16, 2017
Shadowplay
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Education Datalab Secondary schools Attainment 8 GCSEs Grading Progress 8 DfE Pupil data Attainment gap Selective schools Grammar schools
  • Apr 27, 2017
Pupil data can inform starting points, but should never be used to cap expectations of learners
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Disadvantaged pupils Pupil data Schools Week
  • Nov 27, 2016