Exams

Plan B guidance for 2023 exams confirmed

Schools sound workload warnings over contingency plans for next summer’s GCSEs and A-levels

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy quango judicial review launched

Trade bodies claim quango poses ‘existential risk’ to sector viability, but Oak says legal action is ‘extremely disappointing’

John Dickens
John Dickens
Ofsted, SEND

Improving councils can get top SEND marks under new inspections

Ofsted amends new framework after complaints its proposals would ‘set the bar too high’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Mental health

Seven things you need to know about children’s mental health

One in four 17 to 19-year-olds have a probable mental health disorder, finds NHS survey

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Three-quarters of school staff stressed, report warns

Senior leaders were more likely to report feeling stressed, with more than four in five doing so

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

SEND review response coming ‘early’ next year, and 3 things we learned at education questions

Ministers faced questions from MPs in the House of Commons

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Academies

Welcome to the academy trust merger era

New analysis of government figures shows 2,460 trusts were running schools in October, down by 100 or 3.9% year…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

Vaccine taskforce book for schools could prove a long shot

‘We’ve forgotten vaccines, we take them for granted’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Revealed: The 2022 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Leaders demand clarity after energy support hokey cokey

Confusion reigns amid mixed messages from government about extending support next year

Freddie Whittaker
Tom Belger and Amy Walker
Schools

School cuts campaign to focus on plight of special schools

Unions’ website will refocus on the funding woes of special schools and post-16 institutions after claiming victory in the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

KS2 SATs pushed back over King’s coronation bank holiday

The Standards and Testing Agency said key stage 2 test dates will be moved to accommodate the extra May…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger