Schools

NAHT deputy general secretary to take up charity CEO role

Nick Brook, who has been in post at the school leaders’ union for six years, has been appointed CEO…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

43% rise in pupils caught cheating after exams return

Student penalties up more than two-fifths in 2022 compared to 2019, with mobile phones making up the majority of…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
News

Key findings: Has the flagship NTP delivered what ministers promised?

Ministers meet overall target, but fewer schools take up scheme so far this year – and tutoring league tables…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Schools

Link family income data to pupil attainment, says EPI

Think tank warns changing profile of group eligible for free school meals mean it’s not a simple metric for…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

Unions get green-light to challenge ‘strike-breaking’ law in court

Judicial reviews brought by the TUC, NASUWT and Unison will be heard in March

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted annual report 2021-22: 11 things we learned

Watchdog issues warnings over uninspected schools, part-time timetables and its lack of powers over ‘chaotic’ and ‘unsafe’ illegal schools

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter


Ofsted

Ofsted: School workforce crisis ‘compounding’ catch-up problems

Recruitment and retention of staff must be ‘urgently addressed’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

Teacher training: DfE to scrap school direct fee-funded route

Ministers are also considering rolling the school direct salaried route into their postgrad teaching apprenticeship

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

MP: Ofsted sent ‘rogue hit squad’ to my child’s school

Philip Hollobone claimed the team sent to inspect Bishop Stopford School had a ‘prearranged agenda’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Free school meals change could add thousands to schools’ incomes

Leaders urged to help children previously ineligible due to their parents’ immigration status register for support

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted and DfE criticised over lack of data on child sexual abuse

MP fears lack of records will mean ‘important patterns and opportunities to introduce improved safeguarding’ being missed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND tribunal appeals top 10,000 for the first time

In the past academic year, 11,052 SEND appeals were registered – a 29 per cent rise from 8,579 the…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth