Ofsted

‘Independent’ inquiry’s critical Ofsted poll mostly NEU members

Leaders slam self-selecting sample of union-funded group that is ‘dressed up as independent’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SATs

Key stage 1 SATs paper plan a ‘breathtaking waste of money’

Schools will receive test papers unless they opt out, despite the assessments being non-statutory from this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

School support staff unions accept £1,925 pay deal

Pay deal will cost schools around £1bn, leaving budgets ‘tight’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Just 1 in 20 severely absent pupils get five good GCSEs, study shows

But those whose absence improves in year 11 go on to get better grades than those who stay away

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

Tory donors leave Education Policy Institute board as election looms

Sir Paul Marshall and Lord Nash will step down as trustees of the think tank, as David Laws moves…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Sir Ian Bauckham appointed interim Ofqual chief

Current chair of the regulator to serve for 12 month period from January after Dr Jo Saxton departs for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Recruitment and retention

The problems (and solutions) for teacher recruitment and retention

Key findings from three new EEF studies on teacher workload, flexible working and school leadership

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Covid

Williamson opposed masks in schools because he didn’t want to ‘surrender’ to unions

Evidence to the Covid-inquiry claims the former education secretary ‘didn’t want to give an inch’ to the education unions…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Just 1 in 6 schools commit to keep tutoring when cash runs out

Five key findings from Ofsted and NFER evaluations into government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Key findings from the DfE’s EYFS reform evaluation report

Most schools have changed their curriculum ‘approach’ as a result of reforms to the early years framework

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
AI

Oak gets another £2m to expand AI quizzes and lesson planner

First step to ‘providing every teacher with personalised artificial intelligence lesson-planning assistant’, says government

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ruth Perry inquest will not examine whether state failed to protect her

Perry was in contact with the mental health crisis team five days after an Ofsted inspection, an inquest pre-hearing…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson