Schools

Let all girls play football at school, say Lionesses after Euros victory

England women’s squad writes to Tory leadership hopefuls asking them to ‘invest’ in girls’ football

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

AQA staff plan second walkout days before A-level results

Exam board accuses Unison of trying to disrupt grading meetings

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

1 in 3 teachers spends £200 a month on travel as fuel costs soar

A Teacher Tapp poll also found almost one in five says their household is ‘scraping by’ each month

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Truss U-turns on ‘disaster’ plan to cut pay of teachers outside London

The favourite to become the country’s next prime minister said a ‘war on waste’ would save £8.8bn

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Free school firm with two staff wins potential £70bn net zero deal

The Place Group will help schools buy services to hit emissions targets through a new ‘everything net zero’ framework

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Government promise to end 15-year school cash squeeze ‘won’t be met’

The IFS think tank says per-pupil funding will actually be 3 per cent lower in real terms by 2024-25

Tom Belger
Tom Belger


Academies

AET risks losing academy over AP failures and discrimination

Ofsted said prominent trust’s school failed to do necessary checks on AP settings or whether pupils attended, risking harm

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

‘A race to the bottom’: Pay rises push struggling schools to the brink

More than two in five leaders say they will need to consider job cuts without further government cash

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Exams

Minister promises to get tough on exam board mistakes – again

Ofqual could take ‘regulatory action’, but previous ministerial criticisms and watchdog fines do not appear to be preventing problems

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

School suspensions up 13%, but exclusions continue to fall

Government data shows breach of pandemic measures was cited in nearly 13,000 suspensions

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher training

3,000 don’t complete courses as Covid disrupts teacher training

Impact of decision to allow trainees affected by Covid to extend their courses begins to show

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Teachers back digital exams in principle, but school tech not yet up to scratch

Research by exam board AQA finds substantial barriers to digitising exams in England, despite support for the model

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker