ITT

Snubbed ITT provider asked to stay open due to ‘black hole’

The case highlights ongoing concerns around the ITT market review, held against a backdrop of chronic teacher under-recruitment

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

United Learning loses High Court battle over £2m MIS deal

Country’s biggest academy trust said a ruling it broke the law in appointing Arbor over Bromcom will be ‘of…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Deliveries of defibrillators to all schools begin

Safety campaigners say ‘lives will now be saved’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

‘I can’t afford to strike, but I can’t afford to carry on like it is’

NEU members explain how pay erosion and a lack of school funding is driving teachers to take second jobs

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

What school leaders need to know from NAHT strikes guidance

Heads’ union creates own guidance after saying government advice ‘simply unworkable’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ditch grades, safeguarding audits: ASCL’s Ofsted inspection plan

The school leaders’ union has set out wide-ranging proposals it says will help the watchdog win back the profession’s…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker


SEND

SEND costs leave councils on brink of bankruptcy

Some councils are draining reserves to plug high-needs deficits while their other services face cuts

Freddie Whittaker
Tom Belger and Jessica Hill
Politics

Thousands of heads may have been denied strike vote, says NAHT

Union reveals it re-issued over 5,000 ballots amid postal disruption, but three in four may not have reached members…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Three ideas to boost teacher pay (without breaking the bank)

With ministers refusing bigger pay rises, we asked the policy experts what they could do instead

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Mental health

Just one in ten schools signs up to DfE wellbeing charter

Unions say ministers need to go ‘way beyond a simple charter’ to create a ‘long-term culture’ change

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

NEU claims ‘suspected criminal operation’ trying to ‘scam’ members

Teachers’ union’s Facebook posts being ‘bombarded’ by ‘criminals trying to trick members into giving money’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Keegan ‘keen’ to look at varying teacher pay by subject, says union boss

NEU joint general secretary says idea floated by education secretary during crunch pay talks ‘will make the situation even…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker