Politics

Labour’s school policy blitz: What we know so far (and what we don’t)

Sir Keir Starmer to deliver ‘major speech’ after education named among top ‘missions’ for Labour government

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

New academy trust found for Isle of Sheppey school

School being given up by Oasis has never been rated ‘good’ or better

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Sponsored post

Supporting student learning and reading with assistive technology

Increasing a child’s self-reliance and confidence, assistive technology can aid students to experience success by working more independently. To…

Shane Mann
OrCam Technologies
Academies

Trust boss sets up ‘school-owned’ teacher supply agency

Sector attempts to resolve supply teacher issues with ‘disruptor’ firm

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Maths skilling-up scheme for non-specialists falls short

The NCETM met just 57 per cent of its target to train non-specialist maths teachers across two years, FOI…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

AQA also hit by exam paper cyber attack

Surrey Police investigating fraud and computer misuse allegation at England’s largest exam board

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


School buildings

Buildings: How schools are shut out from repairs cash

Revelation comes after spending watchdog warns 700,000 learn in buildings needing major repairs

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Exams

Police investigate stolen exam papers after cyber attack

Schools Week understands the incident relates to a school’s email system being hacked

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Online dashboard would help academy conversions

Heads have been ‘put off conversion’ by the ‘significant effort’ needed to gather data, says think tank

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

How inclusive are mainstream schools?

Schools Week investigates the challenges in fixing a broken SEND system

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Rye College: Ofsted inspects school at centre of gender row

Inspectors sent in to East Sussex school rated ‘good’ earlier this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Grammar Schools

Grammar school inclusion plan had little impact, DfE admits

Government tells selective schools to ‘challenge themselves to do more’ as proportion of poorer pupils rises by just 0.7%

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker