Schools

DfE’s sport and activity action plan: What schools need to know

Ministers to beef up checks on how schools spend PE funding and update guidance to support 2-hour target

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Government still lags well behind NPQ take-up target

Just 63,484 NPQ courses have been started in two years, against a DfE target of 150,000 across three, new…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ministers

£50k minister pay-offs, and 8 more DfE accounts findings

£20 million paid out in department staff shake-up, plus high needs deficits leave LAs facing ‘financial failure’

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Exams

Price of exams rises 6.5% in a year

Ofqual analysis warns of ‘increasing cost pressures’ on exam boards, but full impact of inflation may not yet be…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Unions

Pepe Di’Iasio nominated to succeed Barton as ASCL general secretary

Headteacher and former president is executive’s pick, but members will have chance to challenge him

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted reveals most common subjects for inspection deep dives

New Ofsted analysis shows an average of four deep dives per school inspection, with music and RE among the…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


School funding

£2bn school funding boost ‘didn’t go far enough’, admits Keegan

Education secretary also wants to ‘streamline’ teacher pay and school budgeting process, admitting current system is ‘not ideal’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ESFA

12 ESFA staff get £50k+ exit packages amid restructure

Annual accounts of funding agency also reveal how £5.8m in debts owed by academies have been written-off

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

DfE delays 32.5-hour week expectation to 2024

End-of-term announcement made ‘in recognition of the pressures facing schools’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

School with RAAC ‘might not be repaired for four years’

Pupils currently being bussed to separate school as primary shut for months

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson and Jessica Hill
Ofsted

OGAT boss Martyn Oliver set for Ofsted chief inspector role

Sir Martyn Oliver runs leading turnaround trust, but has been criticised over exclusion rates and use of isolation

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted: 9 key findings from its history subject report

History’s position in schools is ‘more secure’, but ‘significant’ work needed to develop ambitious curriculums

Amy Walker
Amy Walker