News

EHRC guidance causes trans toilet trouble for schools

Data suggests as many as one in four schools has mixed-sex toilets

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

RISE improvement advisers: ‘best of the best’ or ‘clipboard carrying bureaucrats’?

Who are the government’s new improvement advisers, and how will they operate?

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Recruitment

Is teacher recruitment showing ‘green shoots’ of recovery?

New analysis this week provides a double boost for promises to solve teacher recruitment woes

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Unions

Heads’ union pushes for academies’ right to rejoin councils

In an interview with Schools Week, heads’ leader also urges government not to ‘flinch’ in the face of ‘soft…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools Bill

Oh Lord: Peers now take aim at schools bill

Former Tory ministers warn of ‘get out of jail card’ for ‘incompetent’ school leaders

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Give every secondary school a violence against women and girls lead – charity

Youth Endowment Fund also calls for a £100 million investment in violence-reduction programmes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News

Unions launch legal action against the Teaching Regulation Agency

Concern over non-white teachers being ‘overrepresented’ in misconduct referrals

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Blair’s school absence guru calls for ‘national effort’ and public targets

Nine national policy solutions from New Labour attendance expert

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE publishes decade-old academy investigations

Investigation ‘outcome’ reports into five academy controversies dating as far back as 14 years published

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Delivering 6.5k new teachers pledge is ‘significant challenge’, says DfE

Government officials flag concern over Labour’s flagship manifesto promise – but Phillipson highlights ‘green shoots’ of progress

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Health must shoulder more SEND accountability, experts tell MPs

7 findings from health experts at the education committee inquiry into SEND

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Rise in teacher applicants across most subjects, as targets cut 20%

Expert says teacher supply problem ‘may finally be coming to end’ with double boost for Labour’s recruitment pledge

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks