Politics, Schools
New ‘ambition’ that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but…
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted
Job advert for the £165k role states it is an ‘important time’ to lead the watchdog and ’embed’ the…
Amy Walker
Schools
Minister: Mental health will be ‘priority area’ in the upcoming review of relationships, sex and health education guidance
Samantha Booth
Oak National Academy
But contracts to create lessons for two subjects not awarded as bids ‘did not meet high quality bar’
Samantha Booth
Teacher strikes
Unions fear divide and conquer approach after general secretaries are called-in separately
John Dickens and Freddie Whittaker
Schools
Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.
Samantha Booth
Academies
Ministers have U-turned on forced academisation more than 50 times since 2016
Tom Belger
Schools
Department now ‘looking to draft new guidance’ after Quran incident
Samantha Booth
Academies, ASCL Conference
Producing bill before regulatory review was completed was ‘huge legislative error’, says CST chief Leora Cruddas
Freddie Whittaker
ASCL Conference, Ofsted
Bridget Phillipson says schools deserve better ‘than a system that is high stakes for staff, but low information for…
Amy Walker
ASCL Conference, Exams
Dr Jo Saxton says concern over AI cheating ‘reinforces the importance’ of exams
Samantha Booth
ASCL Conference, Ofsted
Amanda Spielman also acknowledges pupil voice may have been given too much ‘weighting’ in some inspections
Amy Walker
