News

The 32.5 hour school week: what you need to know

New guidance shows the time will include breaks, won’t apply to special schools and must be published online

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Schools white paper: New key stage 3 benchmarking tests

The digital tests will provide an ‘understanding of national performance’

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

‘Opportunity for all’ schools white paper: All the policies

Nadhim Zahawi sets out his vision to ‘introduce and implement standards that will improve children’s education’

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Sponsored post

Mental health: how School Mental Health Specialists can get pupils the support they need

Stop pupils from languishing on waiting lists by training a mental health specialist in your school team. Access grants…

Minds Ahead
Minds Ahead
Schools white paper

Council-run academy trusts get the green light in schools white paper

DfE also to set out new maths and English target for secondary schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

School where girl was strip-searched faces legal action

Lawyers representing Child Q launch civil proceedings against the Metropolitan Police and an unnamed school

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Schools white paper

Schools ‘asked to offer’ 32.5-hour week by 2023 – and Ofsted will check

Expectation is equivalent to a six and a half hour day, which most schools already provide

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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