Schools

Stop abusing my teachers, trust CEO tells parents

Mowbray Education Trust’s CEO warned she faces losing talented staff over ‘personally abusive’ and ‘sometimes threatening’ messages

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SEND

‘Enough is enough’: Special schools’ devastating budgets revealed 

Nearly nine in ten special schools are forecasting a budget deficit over the next two years

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

How schools became the frontline against hunger

Surveys show the number of teachers who receive food parcels has also rocketed

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SEND

Educational psychologists to ballot for strikes over ‘real-terms pay cut’

‘Poor pay and conditions have resulted in an unprecedented recruitment and retention crisis, as workloads spiral’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SATs

It’s the same pay for double the work, say SATs markers

Capita faces criticism over slashed marking rates for the second year running

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Ministers abandon hope of Johnson’s six million tutoring target

Subsidy change means schools will fork out less for tutoring next year, but half as many courses will be…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Teacher strikes

Publish full leaked teacher pay recommendation, unions tell Keegan

Full STRB report should be published now following reports of proposed 6.5% rise, leaders say

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Attendance

Six policies to get ‘invisible’ looked-after children back to school

First collection of data from the children’s commissioner shows nearly 1,500 children with social workers not in school

John Dickens
John Dickens
Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy will allow commercial use of its lessons

Move allows schools to adapt resources and share outside their organisation, but U-turn on geo-restriction plans

John Dickens
John Dickens
Academies

Unusual trust job ad seeks ‘Curmudgeonly Eccentric Oddball’

Special school MAT admits it is ‘not entirely sure’ what the CEO role entails

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

School building condition data will be published this term, says Gibb

Pledge comes almost four years after landmark survey of schools was completed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

Fewer schools get repairs cash as building costs soar

25 per cent fewer school repair works get government funding this year

John Dickens
John Dickens