Recruitment

Teacher recruitment campaign gets animated to boost interest

£15,000 contract aims to provide ‘access to realistic job preview tools’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

SEND waiting list backlogs at risk of being ‘normalised’

Areas where pupils reach ‘crisis point before their needs are met’ escape government intervention

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Minister: Labour private schools VAT plan could push up EHCP rates

Labour refused to confirm details of its EHCPs exemption, despite multiple requests for clarification

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes

NASUWT: 78% reject move to formal pay strike ballot

‘Political campaigning to secure a government prepared to fix the damage…must now be the priority’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Lack of ‘capacity-givers’ forces small academy trust into merger

Coast and Vale Learning Trust was told by the DfE it would not be allowed to take on any…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

School with condemned heating system snubbed for repair cash

Hundreds of schools have had bids for emergency maintenance cash rejected

Freddie Whittaker
Jack Dyson and Lucas Cumiskey


Teacher strikes

NEU indicative ballot: Members back strike action over pay

Executive will meet next week to discuss next steps after 9 in 10 back walkouts on a turnout of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Solutions

Academy trusts: From growing pains to gains

As more leaders consider growth, what do we know about how to do this well?

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

GAG pooling transparency calls as trust takes 20% from schools

‘Schools within the trust are having significant amounts of income retained centrally’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

SEND reforms a decade on: How it went wrong, and how to fix it

Schools Week speaks to experts and key decision-makers as system faces crisis 10 years after the children and families…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
School funding

Pensions: Some schools will be short-changed in grant allocations

Government had pledged to fully-fund 20% increase in pension contributions for state schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

‘Consultation not referendum’: Oliver defends Ofsted’s ‘Big Listen’

Union leader raises ‘significant concerns’ about the design of Ofsted’s consultation

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker