Academies Exclusive Talks begin to help tourist hotspot school hit by housing crisis School ‘struggling to make books balance’ as families ‘displaced’ from beauty spot Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Schools Exclusive DfE swerves coroner calls for transgender pupil support clarity Family of Alex Dews warned the teenager ‘fell through the cracks’ and needed more ‘specialist’ support Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Academies Exclusive Trust cuts primary top slice amid pupil shortfall Secondaries at big MAT will contribute more to central services in bid to support ‘struggling’ primaries Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Ofsted Exclusive Ruth Perry’s sister ‘deeply concerned’ over inspection resumption Waters also pushes new chief inspector to meet with three heads who had ‘uncannily similar’ ordeals to Ruth Perry. Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y School funding Exclusive Schools sound alarm over ‘frightening’ 11% funding raid Council warns it will effectively go bankrupt if its soaring budget black hole is not resolved Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted promises to start recording inspection pauses in new era Pledge comes after watchdog admits it holds no ‘central record of the number of inspections that have been paused’ Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Inclusion Exclusive Trusts plan their own private SEND schools amid place crisis Government free school support contractor working with five academy trusts on proposals to ‘drive down prices’ Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Assessment GCSE maths re-sit pass rate lower than pre-pandemic But performance in English re-takes continues to rise Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y News Misconduct decisions to be wiped from DfE’s website Campaigners claim ‘victory for common sense’ as ‘less serious’ misconduct verdicts to be removed from public view Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Schools Poorer pupils less likely to attend top comprehensives Schools with best progress 8 scores have a lower proportion of disadvantaged pupils than their catchment areas, study finds Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y School buildings DfE will repay schools £4k for RAAC surveys – but there’s a catch Funding will only be available for surveys carried out over a two-month period last year Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y School food Khan extends London primary free school meals for a year Mayor also raises per-meal funding to £3 following repeated warnings that schools faced a shortfall Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 1,025 Older