Schools

NFER: Extend ‘levelling-up’ retention payments to all deprived schools

Report also warns 6.5% pay rise won’t solve teacher recruitment and retention woes on its own

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Coroner considering ‘enhanced’ inquest into Ruth Perry death

Decision due in August on whether to hold article 2 inquest – for cases where the state has ‘failed…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Consider ‘golden handcuff’ bursaries, major ITT providers say

Six key findings from the education committee hearing on recruitment and retention crisis

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

What’s new in the DfE’s expanded reading framework?

Updated guidelines suggest in-class ‘influencers’ could get more children reading

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

‘Beyond belief’: Heads have issues AGAIN accessing SATs results

Leaders met with error messages on Primary Assessment Gateway – despite outsourcer Capita being ‘confident’ service would be better

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SATs

Key stage 2 SATs: Overall results same as 2022, but reading falls

59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


SATs

Scaled scores for 2023 key stage 2 SATs announced

DfE publishes marks pupils need to meet the ‘expected’ standard

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

How hostile immigration policies are ‘piling misery on to children’

Thousands of traumatised Afghan children, displaced by the Taliban, face educational disruptions and funding shortfalls in the UK.

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Politics

IfS: Labour private schools plan could boost public purse by £1.3bn

Think tank predicts only ‘small movement’ of pupils into state schools if Starmer enacts VAT plan

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Teenage boy arrested after teacher stabbing at Tewkesbury School

A Gloucestershire secondary school is in lockdown today, with education secretary Gillian Keegan ‘deeply concerned’ after incident

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies, Ofsted

Whitehaven leaves shadow of Bright Tribe with ‘good’ Ofsted rating

School once at centre of one of the largest academy trust scandals now ‘at the heart of the community’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Trust reviews policies after CEO’s ‘premium’ Apple event flights

Auditors flag ‘financial issue’ after trust forked out £1k for journey

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson