Schools

Adjudicator backs council’s objections to trust’s year 7 intake cut

Case is another example of the disconnect between councils and trusts in school admissions system

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Grammar school told to stop demanding tenancy documents 

Rules to crackdown on admissions fraud asked for papers from ‘approved letting agent’ to ‘ensure parents had link to…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Teachers wrongly told they’d failed to make pension payments

One teacher said the bungle caused a ‘great deal of upset and unnecessary worry’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
RAAC

Feature: The RAAC school that moved into Georgian wedding venue

14-hour days, classroom tables in gazebos and scout huts: the inside story of dealing with crumbly concrete

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

Kent’s mainstream SEND plans ‘put pupils’ chances at risk’

Council’s new target for 80 per cent of pupils with EHCPs in mainstream schools criticised

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

30k primary pupils’ data may be at risk after Capita cyber attack

Dark web monitored for the information after company was targeted in March

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Ofsted

Staff ‘bullied’ after talking to Ofsted inspectors

Watchdog received ‘credible evidence’ staff were bullied, court documents show

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
ChatGPT

ChatGPT: One in three teachers use AI to help with school work

Proportion of teachers and leaders reporting using the technology has doubled in five months

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Schools in third county lock down as police investigate ‘threatening’ email

West Yorkshire Police said it had made an arrest in connection with an email sent to a number of…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Catch-up

NELI catch-up scheme boosted children’s language by 4 months

Evaluation also finds pupils eligible for free school meals made even more progress from national roll-out of intervention

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Sponsored post

In Flanders Fields Museum: the starting point for your battlefield trip

The In Flanders Fields Museum brings the story of the First World War to life through thought-provoking, interactive displays….

In Flanders Fields Museum
In Flanders Fields Museum
BTECs

BTECs: Reforms risk 155k students ‘falling through the gap’

Sharp drop in applied general qualifications and slow growth of T-levels will have ‘calamitous impact’, report warns

Billy Camden
Billy Camden