News

Nick Gibb stands down as schools minister

Front-bencher has dominated Conservative education policymaking since 2005

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

How we were stopped from revealing SEND consultants’ pay

Transparency campaigners cry foul as threat of injunction and massive costs prevents public interest reporting

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
News

Unions want £1.7bn more school funding in autumn statement

Chancellor warned that without extra cash, schools 'will begin to cut essential provision in order to survive'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Boosting teacher bursaries would have greater impact than raising pay

Research also finds those recruited off the back of bursaries were more likely to teach in schools which often...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Amy Walker
Politics

Prospects for career in teaching ‘never been better’, claims Gibb

Schools minister says free schools have 'liberated' the teaching profession and MATs let leaders advance earlier

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: ‘Coasting’ schools policy has ‘raised the stakes’, says Spielman

Key findings from the chief inspector's (potentially last) education committee appearance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Funding mistake won’t rip up DfE staff reward voucher scheme

Department says it would be 'unfair to penalise junior staff' for funding gaffe

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Hardship funding barely dents school deficits

Analysis of hardship funding shows that the allocation for one county was less than the deficit of just one...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Inside the first ‘education hackathon’

Gillian Keegan is determined artificial intelligence has its place in education. A ‘hackathon’ in London tried it out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker