Covid

‘Don’t call us ghost children’: The vulnerable families who fear school return

Push to get children back to the classroom leaves families with severe health conditions feeling their needs are not…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

Teach First misses recruitment target as top graduate pay soars

Provider tasked with attracting high-flying graduates calls for £5k recruitment bonus for teachers who work in deprived areas

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

‘Galling’ pay-offs for DfE ministers on the political merry-go-round

Ten ministers who resigned or were sacked are due nearly £110,000 in pay-offs

John Dickens
John Dickens
Academies

Revealed: DfE’s ‘cluster takeover’ plan to boost big academy trusts

Officials draw up proposals to help leading trusts expand into new regions

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Councils should ‘trigger’ academy takeovers, says largest trust boss

But United Learning chief says local authorities should not run their own trusts, and calls for more intervention of…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Unions accept support staff pay rise of up to 10.5%

Unions tell schools to award pay rises ASAP, but unfunded rise will heap more pressure on leaders struggling to…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


Schools

Headteacher support plea as anxiety levels double during Covid

‘Shocking’ Covid impact on heads sparks calls for government intervention to ‘shore up sustainable leadership’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Oak considers letting private firms sell on its lessons

Curriculum quango says it is considering whether to allow commercial use of its resources

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE says Oak quango needed to break ‘cycle’ of curriculum weakness

Everything you need to know about the government’s case for creating a new arms-length curriculum body

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Two former schools ministers to run for education committee chair

Robin Walker and Jonathan Gullis throw their hats in the ring to succeed Robert Halfon

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Boosting reading in secondary schools: 6 Ofsted report findings

Watchdog says tips from top schools will help others improve reading for struggling pupils and inform its own inspections

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

Academies minister Baroness Barran stays on

The appointment seems to complete the new Department for Education ministerial line-up

John Dickens
John Dickens