Schools

Schools sought for EEF trials to boost science and reading

Schools sought to take part in trials of Ascents 121, Focus4Taps and FFT Reciprocal Reading

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted won’t inspect schools on strike days

Teachers in the NEU are due to walk out on six days starting from February 1

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Keegan challenges NEU over legality of strike vote announcement

Union leaders say they are ‘confident’ all employers were informed at around the same time as members

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE advice on when schools should use remote education: 8 key findings

Remote learning can be used to ‘reintegrate’ some absent pupils and also for those who are off with infections,…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

United Learning broke academy rules over £133k ‘duplicate payment’

Country’s largest trust also reveals it was braced for £10m deficit before autumn statement funding announcement

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Hanson Academy: Turning around the school no-one wanted

Delta is overhauling a Bradford academy, but questions remain over the former ‘orphan’ school’s 11-year wait for a sponsor

Tom Belger
Tom Belger


Mental health

Free wellbeing service for heads extended for another year

Contracted charity say heads feel they are too busy to access support or want to help others before themselves

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Strike talks latest: DfE ‘pessimistic’ about prospect of more money

Union leader calls for political intervention after six-hour crunch talks with department officials

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ITT

Snubbed ITT provider asked to stay open due to ‘black hole’

The case highlights ongoing concerns around the ITT market review, held against a backdrop of chronic teacher under-recruitment

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

United Learning loses High Court battle over £2m MIS deal

Country’s biggest academy trust said a ruling it broke the law in appointing Arbor over Bromcom will be ‘of…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Deliveries of defibrillators to all schools begin

Safety campaigners say ‘lives will now be saved’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

‘I can’t afford to strike, but I can’t afford to carry on like it is’

NEU members explain how pay erosion and a lack of school funding is driving teachers to take second jobs

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker