Schools

Educate parents about progress 8 to narrow attainment gap

Study finds parents do not consistently apply to their ‘most effective’ school

John Dickens
John Dickens
RAAC

RAAC: 8 things we learned from Baroness Barran

Minister and DfE boss appear in front of MPs as number of affected schools balloons to 174

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

RAAC: Keegan under fire over holiday and ‘portacabin’ claims

Education secretary slammed for going on holiday after ministers advised to close RAAC schools (and saying children ‘prefer portacabins’)

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
RAAC

RAAC: DfE lists 174 schools now affected

Government reveals 27 more schools have had RAAC identified in their buildings

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: 7 key findings from its geography subject report

Despite many improvements in geography teaching, Ofsted noted issues including a lack of staff and fieldwork

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Business leaders should be on workload taskforce, says ISBL

The body representing school business leaders said it did ‘not understand’ why they’d been left out

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


Schools

Failed construction company leaves DfE £2m out of pocket

Documents filed by administrators show the DfE was owed £2m when Caledonian Modular collapsed

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Delayed DBS checks leave teachers waiting in the wings

Target to process four in five enhanced checks for education staff missed in August, figures show

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Workload

Revealed: The 14 sector leaders on DfE’s workload reduction taskforce

Government also promises to update 2019 recruitment strategy, and new toolkit for flexible working

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Adjudicator backs council’s objections to trust’s year 7 intake cut

Case is another example of the disconnect between councils and trusts in school admissions system

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Grammar school told to stop demanding tenancy documents 

Rules to crackdown on admissions fraud asked for papers from ‘approved letting agent’ to ‘ensure parents had link to…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Teachers wrongly told they’d failed to make pension payments

One teacher said the bungle caused a ‘great deal of upset and unnecessary worry’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth