MATs Exclusive Trust sues ex-bosses over global business trips, holiday cottages – and wants wages repaid Full story of the landmark SchoolsCompany Trust court case as trustees chased for missing £2.8 million Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Academies Investigation Academy commissioner costs soar by 40% after restructure Teams now cost more than £3,000 for each of England’s academies Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y MATs Exclusive SchoolsCompany: £900k, three years … and still no final claims Landmark academy court case criticised over ‘scandalous’ costs and delays Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Exams Progress 8 pause: Heads call for wider review But some heads have warned the sector could creep back to GCSE pass grades being the accountability ‘king’ Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Exams No school progress measure for next two years The Department for Education had explored alternative options, but concluded there is ‘no replacement’ for progress 8 measure Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Climate change Calls for review of ‘undervalued’ climate education A third of secondary teachers did not believe they spent enough time teaching about climate change Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y SEND NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role SEND leaders are playing a ‘crucial role’ in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Ofsted Ofsted criticises ‘limited and poor quality’ RE lessons 5 key findings from Ofsted’s religious education subject report Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Funding CST outlines 4 reforms for ‘fairer’ school funding Academy body calls for SEND cash through the national funding formula, a policy premium and new private finance building… Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y SATs Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y High Court Michaela school wins High Court battle over prayer ban Policy did not ‘interfere’ with a Muslim pupil’s religious freedoms because she had ‘chosen the school knowing its strict… Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Academies Big MATs have highest teacher turnover, EPI finds Large trusts have highest levels of teacher turnover and are better-off, report reveals Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Newer 1 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 1,015 Older
