Teacher strikes

Strikes: DfE ups the ante with warning teachers could miss a deal

Unions fear divide and conquer approach after general secretaries are called-in separately

Freddie Whittaker
John Dickens and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group

Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

The schools that fought off academy orders

Ministers have U-turned on forced academisation more than 50 times since 2016

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Home Office U-turn on blasphemy guidance

Department now ‘looking to draft new guidance’ after Quran incident

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies, ASCL Conference

Academy trust body instructed top lawyer over schools bill

Producing bill before regulatory review was completed was ‘huge legislative error’, says CST chief Leora Cruddas

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
ASCL Conference, Ofsted

Labour proposes ‘report card’ to replace Ofsted grades

Bridget Phillipson says schools deserve better ‘than a system that is high stakes for staff, but low information for…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


ASCL Conference, Exams

Ofqual chief would use exam conditions for coursework amid ChatGPT fears

Dr Jo Saxton says concern over AI cheating ‘reinforces the importance’ of exams

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
ASCL Conference, Ofsted

Ofsted’s complaints process is not ‘satisfying’, chief inspector admits

Amanda Spielman also acknowledges pupil voice may have been given too much ‘weighting’ in some inspections

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Oak founders abandon national academy

At least seven of Oak’s original 11 trust curriculum partners have snubbed the new quango by choosing not to…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND review

SEND contextual league tables plan shelved

DfE claims proposals had ‘mixed feedback’, with concerns it could ‘risk generating perverse incentives’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
ASCL Conference

‘Being a school leader has never felt more challenging’

Geoff Barton on pay talks, workload, Keegan’s no-show and choosing the ‘right time to leave’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker