Politics Ark stands by chair Sir Paul Marshall over social media activity The Conservative donor has been accused of liking and sharing extremist posts Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools Exclusive Lambeth spent £230k on legal fees over superhead departure It was revealed the council had reached a settlement with Sir Craig Tunstall last month Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Ofsted Ofsted: Employers lack skills to help SEND pupils on work experience Leaders ‘prioritised work experience and many were building relationships with employers’, but with ‘mixed results’ Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools Exclusive Schools warned over Big Classroom ‘possible subscription trap’ Teachers got stung by bills of nearly £500 and legal threats after signing up for a free trial Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Resits Exclusive Zero-tolerance resit rule could cost schools £10m Heads warn the ‘out-of-the-blue’ changes, which include minimum teaching hours, are ‘simply unrealistic’ Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Schools Schools face struggle to plug the gaps in ‘bankrupt’ Birmingham School leaders warn councils making multi-million pound cuts to children’s service is a ‘sign that something is badly wrong’ Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Supply teachers Exclusive Supply teachers plan Post Office-style legal action to take down umbrella companies The National Supply Teachers Network to take group litigation over unlawful salary reductions and missing holiday pay Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y School funding ‘Sizeable minority’ of academy trusts ‘vulnerable’ as pupil numbers fall Analysis finds hundreds of primary-only or majority trusts could be in financial jeopardy Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Academies Exclusive Academy trust top slicing is on the up (but do schools get better deal?) As two trusts top-slice almost 10%, chiefs say running services in-house saves time and money for heads Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y School funding Exclusive ‘Severe hardship’ as thousands of schools get 0.5% funding rise Academy trust body requests emergency funding following government’s reduction in minimum per-pupil funding levels Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Exams Ministers mull scrapping Gove’s Russell Group school metric It follows calls from a House of Lords committee to review destination measures Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Schools More than 10,000 pupils ‘fall through the cracks’ – de Souza Children’s commissioner makes wide-ranging recommendations to make school system more ‘inclusive’ Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 1,007 Older