Governance

4 in 5 governors fear for the financial future of their schools

One in ten will set deficit budget or go cap-in-hand to the ESFA to balance income and expenditure, finds…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Misconduct

Teacher misconduct probes now take over TWO YEARS to resolve

Cases now take more than double the government’s 52-week target to complete

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Consider targeting future pay rises to shortage areas, STRB says

School Teachers’ Review Body is ‘deeply concerned’ about recruitment levels and calls for ‘targeted remuneration’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

9 key findings from Ofsted’s maths subject report

Maths education ‘broadly’ more positive than 2012, but recruitment is impacting provision, watchdog research says

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
BTECs

Missed deadline risks thousands of BTEC results

Scores of schools and colleges missed the July 5 data deadline

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Teacher pay

Teacher pay: What schools need to know about the 6.5% offer

Your questions answered after DfE accepts STRB reccomendation on pay for 2023-24

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Teacher pay

STRB report: 6.5% teacher pay rise, but DfE will only fund 3%

Unions will recommend their members accept ‘properly funded’ pay deal

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Use of agency workers to cover strikes quashed in High Court

Government’s approach found to be ‘so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

DfE won’t publish primary progress data in 2024 or 2025

Lack of ‘robust alternative baseline’ following Covid SATs cancellations, government concludes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Ofsted has ‘no serious concerns’ about Rye College after gender row

Urgent inspection found gender dispute incident did ‘not reflect’ pupils’ normal experiences

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Teacher training framework changes will only be ‘moderate’, DfE says

It follows a review of the evidence underpinning the initial teacher training and early career frameworks

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher strikes

NASUWT members vote for industrial action

‘Continuous action’ short of strikes from September, with potential for co-ordinated industrial action with other unions in Autumn

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth