Schools

Overseas teachers exempt from new visa crackdown

Home Office suggests teachers from overseas will not be impacted by £12.5k hike to visa thresholds

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher strikes

Union launches new dispute as Keegan ‘frustrates’ pay review

NASUWT says education secretary’s sluggish pay response puts progress ‘in jeopardy’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ofsted to review inspector training following Ruth Perry death

The watchdog will consider whether to draw up official guidance for inspectors on managing headteacher stress

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

How a trust turned around an island school

Bosses of the Isles of Scilly’s only school tell how they turned around an academy split across four sites…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Leaders leave after trust uncovered £379k spend on linked supply agency

Three senior staff leave academy trust after investigators found ‘undisclosed conflict of interest’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ITT

Teacher trainers deluged by unsuitable international applicants

DfE is trying to stay ‘on the front foot’ to help teacher trainers deal with a huge influx of…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Exclusions

Ban on legal aid for exclusions cases challenged

Permission has been granted for a test case arguing parents should get access to public funding to challenge potentially…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Why is academy conversion suddenly so attractive again?

There are now 608 schools using the voluntary converter route to move out of local authority control

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Schools demand national campaign against abusive parents

More than a third of school staff report receiving verbal abuse from parents

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

United Learning trust sued for defamation over investigation report

Former associate head files claim in the High Court

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Report reveals how top trusts closed ethnicity attainment gap

Diversifying curriculum was one of the successful strategies in government study commissioned after Sewell report

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment

Slashing maths bursary in retention pilot lost scores of teachers

While early career payments improved retention, lower initial payment in DfE scheme hit recruitment more

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker