Teacher training

Teach First will support ‘closure’ of ITT providers under £75k contract

Teacher training charity and Worcester University win contracts to provide ‘ITT market quality associates’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Covid funding data reveals £124m summer schools underspend

Breakdown published by DfE shows schools received almost £300m in Covid grants

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

New London regional director revealed after RSC rebrand

Eight regional directors have been named in a DfE restructure, becoming schools’ ‘point of contact’ in each area

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

‘Hitler invented antisemitism’: Tackling Holocaust misconceptions and hate in schools

Tom Belger joins teachers visiting Auschwitz amid alarming levels of Holocaust ignorance and antisemitism

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
SEND

DfE to collect special school capacity data after places crisis exposed

Ministers move to get a grip on special school places shortage after Schools Week investigation

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Teachers fear 2022 exams will widen attainment gap

‘Impacts of the pandemic on education are far from over,’ new research finds

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


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