Academies

Regional directors reveal academies approach

Officials are deploying ‘soft levers’ to encourage small schools to convert and build capacity in the system

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Pay and conditions

Pay review body ‘recommends 6.5% rise for teachers’

But recommendation prompts warnings any new deal must be funded

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Tax agency assessors to run school capacity checks

Officials confirm visits in secondary and special schools will run from July for two years

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Study reveals full scale of London pupil exodus amid school closures

Nearly 50,000 pupils left London’s schools last year, Datalab study shows, as ministers told to ‘get a grip’ amid…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

What does Burnham’s new ‘MBacc’ qualification mean for schools?

Proposals for the ‘MBacc’, which will steer pupils towards technical training in Greater Manchester, have put the mayor on…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
School funding

DfE delays report to ‘hide evidence’ of funding woes

Letter sent to MPs on teacher strike day in April reveals requested evidence has been pushed back to September

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Ofsted

Rebroker U-turn after Ofsted rapid return

Norwich school leapt from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ in just four months

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Inclusion

‘Political adversarialism’ hampering Birmingham SEND improvements

Damning report flags ‘unhelpful and even illegal practices around exclusions and part-time provision’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Pay and conditions

Teacher strikes: July walkouts hinge on STRB response, says NEU

‘If she makes the right decisions, she could also avoid further strike action’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

SATs reading paper wasn’t too difficult, says DfE

Government is ‘confident’ the controversial paper was ‘set to an appropriate level of difficulty’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Wellbeing

Mental health leads struggle to find time for the job

Almost 6 in 10 schools have taken up training grant funding, but survey reveals workload concerns

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

GLF Schools boss to stand down later this year

Jon Chaloner becomes third large trust CEO to leave their role so far this year

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter