News

STRB recommends teacher pay rise ‘close to 4%’ – reports

Leaders say further unfunded pay rises would cause ‘ruinuous harm’ – but No 10 rule out extra cash

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exclusions

‘Undue focus’ on pupils’ race risks ‘over-complicating’ exclusions, says judge

School ‘vindicated’ after ruling it acted lawfully when it excluded a boy of black Caribbean heritage

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: OCR, Northern, All Saints

This week’s movers and shakers include a ‘keen Germanophile’ and a serving professor working as a trust leader

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Strikes

NEU backs strikes ‘blueprint’ to ‘take on’ large MATs

Conference also votes to aim to win improved working conditions and ‘undermine the notion of academy freedoms’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Perry’s sister and sector leaders call for Ofsted reform pause

Last-ditch call for a delay comes on final day of Ofsted’s consultation

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Unions

‘Give teachers hope’, Roach tells Phillipson as he leaves NASUWT role

Departing union boss urges government to ‘focus on delivery’ as he hands the reins to Matt Wrack

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


School funding

Councils take up to 9% of school budgets for core services

Findings challenge claims trusts charge their schools more for services away from classrooms

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Edtech

Schools will get discounted updates to keep Windows 10 running

Microsoft will no longer provide free software updates for the operating system after October 14

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
News

DfE commits to trans guidance this year after Supreme Court ruling

Legal experts urge schools to avoid a ‘blanket’ approach in response to the judgment

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Governors told to ‘resign’ if they don’t back Catholic mega MAT plans

And another diocese tells governors they could only pass compliance checks with evidence they supported academisation

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Breakfast clubs

79 schools withdraw from breakfast clubs trial

Many schools cite inadequate funding, raising concerns about the viability of the full rollout

Freddie Whittaker
Rhi Storer and Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Schools have 28% of budgets shaved off by academy trust ‘GAG pooling’

Unions are now demanding greater scrutiny over how trusts pool budgets, as schools await promised guidance

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson