News

Mental health and school dissatisfaction driving more children into home education

Heads’ leader says it’s ‘vital to ensure that families have made the choice to home educate for the right…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Trust CEO, ex-civil servant and safeguarding expert join Ofsted board

Lucy Heller, Hardip Begol and Alan Wood among five new appointments to governing board of the inspectorate

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Assessment

Photographers removed from GCSE assessment over website images

AQA deletes photographers’ names from exam after images ‘not appropriate for learners’ found on their websites

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Assessment

Ofqual boss ‘signals anxiety’ to DfE about AI in A-level coursework

Sir Ian Bauckham was questioned by MPs this morning on artificial intelligence risks, his new ‘rebuke’ powers and on-screen…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Ofsted publishes first school report cards

Leaders give their views on new inspections as reports for 22 volunteer schools are released

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School improvement

Impact of RISE teams to be published this year

But government will publish individual adviser objectives amid data protection concerns

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Schools

Primary headteachers share joy and surprise at being made MBEs

Four serving heads at state primaries were among 57 people working in or with schools recognised in the New…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Academies

Call for ministers to settle debate over make-up of MATs

Debate comes as huge trust gives up two special schools and another says some are ‘impossible’ to take on

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

No internal audit for trust with £8.4m deficit

Trouble-hit Arthur Terry Learning Partnership could receive a further £1 million in emergency funding

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

How falling school rolls are not just London’s crisis

Declining childbirth rates are hitting school demographics with many schools facing closure as the issue spreads across England

Samantha Booth
Chaminda Jayanetti
Academies

New powers to close academy trusts ‘must be used with caution’

Sector responds to news government is set to gain new intervention powers once MAT inspections start

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Education technology

DfE plans to use AI to help answer your emails

Plans say system can reduce time to draft a response from 30 to just one minute

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas