News

Scaled scores for 2022 key stage 1 SATs announced

The number of marks pupils needed in their key stage 1 tests to achieve the government’s “expected” score has…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

National Institute of Teaching wants to be ‘tide that lifts all boats’

CEO Melanie Renowden tells Schools Week why the sector should embrace rather than fear the new flagship teacher training…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Ex-academies ministers team up to torpedo schools bill powers

The government will also seek to amend its own legislation to require councils to consult more widely before converting…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Schools bill reforms could require 12,000 more academy trustees

Former government schools tsar warns of ‘capacity issue’ as ministers seek to move all schools into academy trusts

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Ark Schools risks losing academy over homophobia, harassment and SEND suspensions

The leading trust’s school faced criticism over a ‘culture of sanctions’, unmonitored missing pupils and unrecorded bullying and prejudice

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Schools bill: Ministers want veto on academy trustees

New DfE documents reveal more about powers sought by ministers in schools bill

Tom Belger
Tom Belger


SEND

Councils commit extra cash to keep special school trust afloat

The Queensmill Trust is fighting for its financial survival and to keep its flagship school after warning notice

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Capita pauses SATs marking for nearly two days

Firm halted marking to scan more test scripts

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Failure to focus on poorer pupils will widen gap, say tutoring providers

Letter urges education secretary to ensure the scheme’s ‘core original focus’ on disadvantaged children is not lost

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

National schools commissioner Dominic Herrington to leave role

Departure to Ministry of Justice role comes ahead of shake-up of regional school commissioners group

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

80 winners scoop silver at the 2022 Pearson National Teaching Awards

Education secretary praises ‘incredible educators who support our children to achieve their potential’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

One in four pupils were persistently absent in autumn 2021

Changes to isolation rules reduced Covid-related absence, but illness drove a rise in other absences

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker