Grammar Schools

£64m to make grammar schools more inclusive – but the gap widens

Despite pandemic surge in free school meals rates, grammars given expansion cash have fallen further behind

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Don’t let your energy contracts expire, DfE warns schools

Buying energy out of contract will be ‘more expensive’, leaders told

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Best-paid trust CEOs’ wages rise fastest, but some rein in pay

The highest-paid have seen bigger pay rises than the rest, with some academy trusts reining in pay even as…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Ofsted will use 2022 SATs and GCSE results to judge curriculum impact

Inspectors will be ‘sensitive in their use of this data’

James Carr
James Carr
Tutoring

DfE starts secret talks on future of National Tutoring Programme

Officials hold ‘market warming’ discussions with would-be bidders about next year of flagship catch-up initiative

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Persistently absent pupils to be mentored under £5m trial

DfE seeks organisation to mentor pupils in disadvantaged areas as persistent absence remains high

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Schools

Eton commits £1m annual top-up for ‘elite’ sixth forms

Private school plans to plow an extra £2k per pupil into new institutions, declaring state funding is inadequate

Will Nott
Will Nott
News

Chancellor snubs schools as 500,000 children ‘fall into poverty’

Union leader warns school funding snub in spring statement heralds ‘return of austerity’

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

MPs want more transparency over academy trust bailouts

Influential committee chair warns of ‘unacceptable’ lack of accountability’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Nine more councils told to reform SEND services in return for £300m

But cash comes with strict conditions such as keeping more children in mainstream schools

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid

Free school meals permanently extended to pupils with ‘no recourse to public funds’

Children of families subject to immigration control were temporarily given access to free meals in April 2020

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Paul Whiteman re-elected unopposed as NAHT general secretary

Leaders’ union boss will serve another five year term from September

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker