News

Watchdog widens probe into charities supporting Jewish schools

Three more charities linked to schools to be investigated by Charity Commission over £22m cashed cheque concerns

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE pushes ahead with unregistered AP time limits

Government confirms plans for ‘voluntary’ standards, but will make them mandatory ‘when parliamentary time allows’

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Schools more disorderly and parents less supportive of behaviour rules

Government’s annual school behaviour survey also finds pupils feel less safe, with more bullying over their race or ethnicity

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Costs putting poorer pupils off some GCSE subjects

Pupils ‘cut off from opportunities just as the foundations of their futures are being laid’, warns charity

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

Government names first 21 new ‘behaviour and attendance hubs’

And Tom Bennett and Jayne Lowe revealed as ambassadors for the new scheme

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
RAAC

School delays return to class amid RAAC concerns

Long tail of crumby concrete crisis re-emerges as ‘questions’ raised over 7-year-old mitigation

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Cyber security

School staff personal data potentially ‘compromised’ in Intradev cyber attack

Data breach reported by IT firm Intradev may have affected data held by School Central Record, which includes addresses…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Holiday activities and food programme

Holiday activities programme extended for another 3 years

Department will use £600m from its three-year spending review settlement to extend scheme to 2029

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
AI

Two in five teachers feel they’re ‘cheating’ when using AI

Teachers are caught between enthusiasm for AI and worries about authentic education, Bett study finds

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Pensions

Handover of £233m teachers’ pensions contract to Tata delayed

Capita’s handover of contract it ran for almost 30 years postponed from October to next summer

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
GCSE results 2025

Bauckham concerned over switches from triple to double science GCSE

But too early to ‘infer a trend’ as data suggests 10,000 switch from three separate qualifications to double award

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Movers and Shakers

New David Ross trust CEO ‘no longer able to take role’

MAT reveals Julian Appleyard will not take over as CEO as planned after ‘change in personal circumstances’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson