Movers and Shakers

Turnaround CEO to leave role for new global education firm

Northern Education Trust boss Rob Tarn will leave for new school management company launched by GEMS Education

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Movers and Shakers

Oak National Academy names interim CEO

Oak co-founder John Roberts set to replace Matt Hood as interim CEO

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: Consilium, E-ACT, Athelstan, Rise

This week’s movers and shakers include an animal lover, kinship carer, a musician, former lawyer and an ice hockey…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Curriculum review

Curriculum review should ‘incentivise’ schools to teach ’employment skills’

Schools need support to promote the development of skills such as communication, organisation and problem-solving, says NFER study

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Half of councils face insolvency over £5bn SEND deficit ticking timebomb

Survey of councils suggests over half will fail to break even if a measure keeping deficits off their books…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Free school gets £500k government bailout after wage increase

Private school-turned-academy hit with budget problems after increasing support staff pay to national rates

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


News

Free School Meals check system redesign to boost take-up

The DfE say the redesign will make it ‘quicker and easier’ for parents to check eligibility for free school…

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Schools

Coroner concern over school swimming lessons after boy’s death

Coroner warns some primaries are not providing swimming lessons despite it being curriculum requirement

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Academy trusts

Trust’s growth plan (partially) knocked back

Just 6 out of 19 school applications were accepted by the DfE’s East Midlands advisory board last month

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Strikes threat over trust’s plan to extend school day past 2.30pm

Outwood Grange’s proposal would bring teaching hours in line with national guidelines – but a union has threatened strike…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Movers and Shakers

Teach First announces James Toop as new CEO

Current Teach First chief executive Russell Hobby is stepping down this summer following seven years at the helm of…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Behaviour improving says Ofsted, but teachers beg to differ 

Number of schools being marked down on behaviour by Ofsted has plunged by more than half since Covid

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks