Governance

DfE scraps governance support scheme two years after reforms

NGA ‘disappointed’ national leaders of governance scheme will be disbanded

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Tutoring

Long read: How a tutoring revolution left smaller schools behind

A small number of ‘super tutor’ schools are delivering nearly half of all catch-up, with rural and small schools…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND review

Councils shortlisted to test SEND reforms

Groups will trial new policies put forward in the SEND and alternative provision green paper

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes

Teacher strikes: NAHT will re-ballot school leaders

Leaders of all four unions to announce plan to co-ordinate industrial action as pay dispute escalates

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academy trust in union row over £1.5m support staff ‘back pay’

United Learning slams ‘untrue’ Unison accusations it is ‘withholding pay’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
BTECs

Keep BTECs until T-levels prove their worth, say MPs

Education committee casts doubts on government’s bonfire of technical qualifications

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Jason Noble


SATs

DfE ‘confident’ of improvements to KS2 SATs after failings

The 2022 series of tests, the first run by outsourcing giant Capita, was fraught with problems

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE on course to recruit less than half of required secondary teachers

Analysis of new government recruitment targets shows teacher supply is ‘spiralling out of control’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
School funding

Heads fearing ‘bankruptcy’ should use cost-cutters, says DfE

Department funding chief says ‘we recognise every year there are some schools which face real financial challenges’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Lower-rated schools to get falling roll cash, but not for 18 months

DfE to proceed with a suite of amendments to its national funding formula

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Oasis Community Learning CEO John Murphy to step down

Leader of one of England’s largest trusts leaves to pursue ‘a range of projects across the education sector’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

More heads cut school trips amid funding crisis

Sutton Trust research finds steep rises in schools cutting back on teaching assistants and IT equipment

Amy Walker
Amy Walker