Every one of those 3 sits in a single category, policy. Department for Education is most often covered alongside Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, which appears in 1 of these 3 stories. Across a 144-day span, the pace is roughly 0.1 stories per week.
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What the coverage shows about Department for Education
Every one of those 3 sits in a single category, policy. Department for Education is most often covered alongside Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, which appears in 1 of these 3 stories. Across a 144-day span, the pace is roughly 0.1 stories per week. The 5.3 average consequence score is below the beat benchmark of 5.5 in the same window. Each story carries 3.3 original sources on average, compared with 3.2 for the broader beat in this window. Department for Education appears in 3 tracked EdTech stories published from March 6, 2026 through July 27, 2026.
Stories tracked
3
Per week
0.1
Sources per story
3.3
Computed from the 3 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 194 EdTech stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Appears alongside
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Department for Education. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
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