School outcomes

Co-chairs revealed for white working-class kids inquiry

Ex-education secretary joins academy boss in heading inquiry run by Public First (but government didn’t commission it)

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
News

‘Teachers visa’ and agency regulation: 5 ways to improve overseas recruitment

Government evaluation found some international recruits were ‘unprepared’ for the behaviour in English schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Fewer teachers quit and more return: 10 key workforce findings

Data suggests recruitment and retention pressures may be easing

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Pupil numbers

Pupil numbers fall as system passes demographic tipping-point

And for the first time, there are now more academies in England than council-maintained schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

National Institute of Teaching gains degree-awarding powers

Move means government’s flagship teacher training provider will award its own PGCE to trainees

Freddie Whittaker
Jessie Williams
News

Free school meals extended to all from universal credit households

But schools won’t get more pupil premium funding, and some children to lose eligibility as transitional protections end

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News

Ministers mull putting health services in spare primary classrooms

Education secretary says government is exploring how to use the school estate for ‘wider family services’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Defence review calls for cadet expansion – despite DfE funding cut

Call from the Ministry of Defence comes less than a year after the DfE scrapped its £1.1m contribution to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Policy

Headteacher appointed as new DfE ‘school leader adviser’

Maintained school headteacher Andrew O’Neill to deliver ‘frontline expertise directly into the heart of policy-making’, government says

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Teacher strikes

Striking teachers tell trust to extend lunch break instead of lessons

Teachers across 14 Outwood Grange trust schools to strike this week over plans to extend day past 2.30pm

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Movers and Shakers

MAT names inclusion director as new CEO

Incoming Anthem Schools Trust boss set to leave one of England’s biggest MATs for new role

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

More schools miss out as ‘lottery’ repair grants fall again

Just 35 per cent of schools that applied for condition improvement funding get cash

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson