Schools

Chartered College and Magic Breakfast scoop FEA awards

Fair Education Alliance awards provide support to start and scale-up solutions to ‘transform’ education

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Teacher strikes: How the ‘exemption’ to support exam pupils will work

NEU members will be given ‘dispensation’ to work on strike days to support year 11 and 13 pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Keegan: Ofsted ‘reviewing’ approach to safeguarding

‘Tragedy’ of Ruth Perry’s death raises ‘understandable’ questions about inspection practice, says education secretary

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

‘Sector-led’ attendance hubs to tackle school absence rates

Expansion of hubs programme follows a pilot which ‘achieved significant reductions’ in absence

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Governance

Diversity stats ‘not enough’ to boost school board representation

New government guidance ‘encourages’ schools to collect and publish governor and trustee diversity data

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

What’s actually new in Sunak’s maths to 18 (re)announcement?

The prime minister sets out new expert group, primary teacher NPQ and extended maths hubs in bid to tackle…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


Schools

Sunak’s maths to 18 expert advisory group revealed

They include an architect of the national curriculum, a former Ofqual boss and the CEO of a credit card…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher strikes

Strikes: Sunak’s ‘door always open’, but Keegan says no to fresh talks

Unions demand clarity after PM and education secretary issue conflicting statements on pay dispute

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Sponsored post

Tutoring gives kids the boost they need

Headteacher Ann-Marie McGough on how the Department for Education’s National Tutoring Programme has had a real impact on pupils…

Department for Education
Department for Education
Academies

Trust to give up ‘coasting’ schools as first intervention published

Government had concerns over Eastern MAT’s ‘capacity to deliver rapid and sustained improvements’ given its Ofsted ‘track record’ this…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
EEF

EEF’s Sir Peter Lampl to step down as chair

Philanthropist to leave role 12 years after he helped found the evidence broker charity

John Dickens
John Dickens
Schools

EEF study to investigate impact of London’s free school meal roll-out

Independent evaluation would look at whether giving all primary pupils free meals boosts exam results, wellbeing and attendance

John Dickens
John Dickens