Ofsted

‘Hand in your badges’: Ruth Perry’s sister urges heads not work as Ofsted inspectors

Professor Julia Waters tells NAHT conference members should ‘refuse to be complicit in Ofsted’s reign of terror’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

DfE gives £17m to academy trusts to ‘try before you buy’

Money was released to support maintained schools at risk of ‘unexpected or imminent failure’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

NAHT conference 2023: Full text from Paul Whiteman’s speech

The union’s general secretary was speaking after announcing a strike re-ballot of members

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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