Schools

Schools offered £3k to appoint ‘maths champions’

Revamped charity headed by ex-DfE adviser wants to make maths the ‘SAS of subjects’ amid fears 30k promising pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Ministers promise to unveil ‘detailed net-zero roadmap’ for schools

Barran says current rebuilding schemes alone ‘will not enable the education estate to meet targets’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Workload

DfE’s workload reduction taskforce: the ‘early’ recommendations in full

Workforce advisers call for wellbeing champions, stopping teachers decorating classrooms and another INSET day

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: Edition 344

Someone who once trained alongside athlete Linford Christie and a former child West End star are among those starting…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Workload

Performance-related pay in schools to be scrapped from September

New list of admin tasks teachers shouldn’t do will also be published, but plea for extra INSET day snubbed

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Ministers spent £20k covering up £13k influencer spend

Heads union says it’s ‘pretty dispiriting that the government thinks it can get away with squandering public money in…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Recruitment and retention

New guidance to help schools tackle harassment of staff

But union said ‘we also need a clear message from government that aggression towards school staff will never be…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

Talks begin to help tourist hotspot school hit by housing crisis

School ‘struggling to make books balance’ as families ‘displaced’ from beauty spot

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE swerves coroner calls for transgender pupil support clarity

Family of Alex Dews warned the teenager ‘fell through the cracks’ and needed more ‘specialist’ support

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Trust cuts primary top slice amid pupil shortfall

Secondaries at big MAT will contribute more to central services in bid to support ‘struggling’ primaries

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ruth Perry’s sister ‘deeply concerned’ over inspection resumption

Waters also pushes new chief inspector to meet with three heads who had ‘uncannily similar’ ordeals to Ruth Perry.

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
School funding

Schools sound alarm over ‘frightening’ 11% funding raid

Council warns it will effectively go bankrupt if its soaring budget black hole is not resolved

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth