News

School slams Ofsted’s ‘mystifying’ refusal to explain grade, High Court hears

All Saints Academy Dunstable claims Ofsted did not provide ‘adequate reasons for very serious judgments’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

School loses court battle over Ofsted downgrade to ‘good’

Thomas Telford school took watchdog to court over row about ‘cooling off periods’ not being registered as suspensions

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Ofsted to explore how AI can help it make ‘better decisions’

Exams regulator Ofqual also publishes AI strategy, revealing ‘modest numbers’ of coursework malpractice

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

GCSE results will suffer ‘well into 2030s’ due to Covid – study

Academics warn of ‘unprecedented’ widening of the attainment gap, in a post-Covid ‘double whammy’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Assessment

Deprived schools more likely to see progress 8 scores fall

Analysis comes as Covid impact and potential Labour changes may spell end to measure in its current form

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: McCandless, Coiffait-Gunn, MacKenzie, Robinson, Uttley, Spackman

Leader who worked on Bill Clinton’s campaign and journalist who dined with Donald Trump among those with new jobs…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Ofsted

DfE: ‘No plans’ to change single-phrase Ofsted judgments

The government will respond to MPs’ concerns this Thursday

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Assessment

Primaries fail to opt out of SATs – but say they won’t be testing

FOI data reveals just 7 per cent of primary schools opted out of receiving KS1 papers

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment and retention

Focus on recruitment schemes that will make a difference, ministers urged

A Schools Week FOI revealed a government scheme to recruit armed forces veterans has tanked

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Curriculum

Oak CEO hunt surpasses a year

Vacancy for £120k-a-year role remains unfilled 12 months since applications closed

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Trusts struggling to close ‘unacceptable’ gender pay gap

The gap did narrow at 12 of the 20 biggest trusts but there has been little progress in recent…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

Ministers eye new ‘spot checks’ to monitor playing field sell-offs

Government reveals new measures ‘under consideration’ to check land sale conditions have been met

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson