School funding

What the future of school funding looks like under Liz Truss

Despite today’s humiliating U-turn, there’s still a huge funding black-hole – and public sector spending looks set to take…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Teacher pay

Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England from September 2022

DfE confirms pay scales following offer of 5% for most teachers and 8.9% increase in starting salaries

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

‘Difficult to swallow’: Leaders criticise exam fee hikes of up to 17%

Exam boards will earn several million pounds more from schools – but say they have to cover the costs

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

NASUWT and NEU to ballot school staff for strikes over pay

Two unions representing hundreds of thousands of school staff prepare for formal ballots over government pay proposals

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Revealed: 1 in 3 at risk BTECs saved from the chop

DfE publishes ‘final’ list of level 3 quals that overlap with first ten T Levels

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Solutions

Can childcare fill primary schools’ empty classrooms?

On-site childcare delivers many benefits for schools, but ‘practical issues’ face leaders considering renting out vacated spaces

John Dickens
John Dickens


Solutions

Our commitment to solutions journalism

We will keep exposing the issues facing schools, but can we provide extra value by doing a better job…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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The View From Next Gen

Ian Tufts is Chief Technology Officer at ParentPay Group and as part of his role, he oversees the work…

SIMS Next Gen
SIMS Next Gen
Politics

Council attendance staff cuts 50 times bigger than new support

DfE has hired 13 absence advisers, but investigation suggests over 600 attendance staff have been slashed from councils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Keeping their heads? School leader turnover rises by a third

‘We’re seeing the resumption of a downward trend in leadership retention’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Covid

How Covid hit poorer pupils harder: 6 COSMO study key findings

The pandemic has “severely widened existing inequalities” between poorer pupils and their better-off peers, a report on the impact…

Donna Ferguson
Donna Ferguson
News

BTEC and CTEC results delays: 6 things we learned

Officials grilled by MPs on scale of the delays, the impact on pupils and the action being taken to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden