School buildings

700k pupils in schools needing major repair work

Critical National Audit Office report reveals £2bn-a-year capital funding shortfall

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

£85m quietly slashed from school climate change scheme

Spending watchdog says DfE has ‘no plan in place’ to meet government decarbonisation targets

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

‘Complain, don’t withdraw kids’ over RSHE concerns, says Gibb

Minister says parents don’t have a ‘veto’ over relationships and sex education content but urges use of complaints procedure

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted curriculum lead to take up director post at Ark

Heather Fearn will move to Ark Schools as its director of curriculum and assessment in September after six years…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

School uniform rules have limited impact, poll suggests

Calls for further action as The Children’s Society survey shows rising uniform costs and branded items still rife

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Social mobility

College principal to succeed Birbalsingh as social mobility chair

Alun Francis has been filling in as interim chair since ‘country’s strictest headteacher’ resigned in January

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter


Schools

Capita loses out on £233m Teachers’ Pension Scheme contract to Indian IT firm

Outsourcing firm has run the pension scheme for 27 years, but also recently pulled out of teacher training contract

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Sponsored post

Switch to Cambridge Nationals

Are you considering which KS4 qualification to deliver from September 23? Look no further than Cambridge Nationals.

Shane Mann
OCR
Covid

Sixth-form loses employment tribunal over Covid shortcomings

Employment tribunal judge backs English teacher’s indirect age discrimination claim against London sixth form

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Teacher given OBE last year guilty of misconduct over £180k bonuses

But former deputy head avoids ban as case dragged on for ‘extremely long time’

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
ITT

ITT partnerships to help ‘cold spots’ fall through

Two proposed plans involving four universities have collapsed

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

AI: how are schools using the technology in classrooms?

Ministers hope AI can ‘transform’ teacher workloads, but just 17 per cent of teachers have used the technology in…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker