Politics

No ‘minimum safety levels’ for school strikes (just yet)

Exclusive: Schools Week understands new guidance will be issued shortly to help heads deal with looming strikes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
Careers

2,200 primaries in poor areas to get careers help under £2.6m scheme

DfE says teachers will get training from Teach First to deliver careers programmes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Sunak outlines maths to 18 ‘ambition’…but not before 2025

Labour says ‘reheated’ pledge is ’empty without more maths teachers’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Arise, Sir Ian: Knighthood for MAT boss and DfE adviser Bauckham

EEF boss Professor Becky Francis, ex-national schools commissioner Dominic Herrington and MAT leader Rob Tarn also recognised

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Future Academies appoints ex-Harris head as CEO

Ex-Harris Tottenham head Lawrence Foley will lead the trust launched by ex-minister Lord Nash, which faced staff and student…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Sir Gav’s £17k golden goodbye, and 6 other things we learned from the DfE’s accounts

Bumper payouts for sacked ministers, staff retention issues and fears over SEND performance all revealed in annual accounts

Tom Belger
Tom Belger


Teacher pay

Keegan claims teachers are among ‘top 10% of earners’

Education secretary incorrectly claims teacher pay is ‘a lot higher’ than average, and inflates the average head’s salary by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

School aims to cut energy costs with Christmas single

A song recorded by pupils at Barn Croft Primary School in east London has already raised £26,000 towards solar…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

DfE loses £10.3m in unclaimed free school VAT refunds

Department admits tax was not claimed back for nine trusts’ free school projects by the HMRC deadline

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Risk of school buildings collapsing now ‘very likely’, DfE says

Government escalates dealing with school classroom safety to cross-government board after a rise in reported ‘serious structural issues’

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Brexit leaves thousands fewer overseas teachers despite hiring plan

Reforms to get more overseas teachers working in English schools would fill only a sixth of the shortfall in…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Teach pupils about modern antisemitism, warns Lord Mann

The government’s independent adviser on antisemitism has said Holocaust education itself is ‘not enough’ to combat anti-Jewish hatred

Amy Walker
Amy Walker