Schools

MPs launch teacher recruitment and retention inquiry

The Education Committee is set to investigate the driving factors behind chronic teacher shortages as part of a new…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

Academy body taps experts for ‘what works’ inquiry on trusts

Review will will aim to create resources on how to improve trusts and publish a report

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Ofsted

Academy body role on Ofsted recruitment panel criticised

Confederation of School Trusts head will advise on the appointment of the next chief inspector

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Solutions: How an academy trust slashed its supply costs

One school has reduced its spend from £461,665 to £5,621 in four years

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher strikes

Teacher pay strike savings to fund iPads and energy bills

Schools and trusts plan to reinvest £128m windfall from salary deductions in their workforce

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

DfE and unions agree pay talks over teacher strikes

‘Intensive’ talks start today after the NEU agreed to a ‘period of calm for two weeks’ where no more…

John Dickens
John Dickens


Ofsted

Labour’s Ofsted plans ‘logical evolution’, says Spielman

Chief inspector says it’s ‘completely rational for a potential alternative government to be thinking about things like this’

Freddie Whittaker
Billy Camden and Freddie Whittaker
Academies

The academy trust CEO pay outliers

Most trusts under government scrutiny froze or slashed pay last year – but others handed out significant rises

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Teacher training

Snubbed teacher training providers get top Ofsted reports

Leaders left ‘struggling to explain’ why they will stop providing service to schools next year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Amy Walker
SEND

Council SEND deficit bailouts hit £1bn as 20 more issued

Councils told to make mainstream schools more inclusive in new wave of handouts

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Almost 2 in 5 poorer pupils were persistently absent last year

Children eligible for free school meals were more than twice as likely to miss 10 per cent or more…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Treasury expects schools to charge parents for wraparound childcare

Government tells Schools Week it expects ‘most schools will be able to deliver the provision self-sufficiently’ from 2026

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth