Academies

Leaders leave after trust uncovered £379k spend on linked supply agency

Three senior staff leave academy trust after investigators found ‘undisclosed conflict of interest’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training and development

Teacher trainers deluged by unsuitable international applicants

DfE is trying to stay ‘on the front foot’ to help teacher trainers deal with a huge influx of…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Behaviour

Ban on legal aid for exclusions cases challenged

Permission has been granted for a test case arguing parents should get access to public funding to challenge potentially…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Why is academy conversion suddenly so attractive again?

There are now 608 schools using the voluntary converter route to move out of local authority control

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Schools demand national campaign against abusive parents

More than a third of school staff report receiving verbal abuse from parents

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

United Learning trust sued for defamation over investigation report

Former associate head files claim in the High Court

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Schools

Report reveals how top trusts closed ethnicity attainment gap

Diversifying curriculum was one of the successful strategies in government study commissioned after Sewell report

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment and retention

Slashing maths bursary in retention pilot lost scores of teachers

While early career payments improved retention, lower initial payment in DfE scheme hit recruitment more

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

EYFS results improve, but some pupils far behind

DfE says improvement may show Covid recovery or familiarity with new assessments – but gender gap widens

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted

Ruth Perry felt ‘inadequate’ grade was ‘end of career’, husband says

Headteacher was ‘distraught and distressed’ after Ofsted visit, inquest hears

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Pay and conditions

Leaders vow to shun minimum service levels for schools

But DfE refuses to say whether schools will face action for failing to issue work notices to striking staff

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker