Pupil numbers Pupil numbers fall as system passes demographic tipping-point And for the first time, there are now more academies in England than council-maintained schools Freddie Whittaker 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo News National Institute of Teaching gains degree-awarding powers Move means government’s flagship teacher training provider will award its own PGCE to trainees Freddie Whittaker 4mo Jessie Williams 4mo News Free school meals extended to all from universal credit households But schools won’t get more pupil premium funding, and some children to lose eligibility as transitional protections end Freddie Whittaker 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo News Ministers mull putting health services in spare primary classrooms Education secretary says government is exploring how to use the school estate for ‘wider family services’ Freddie Whittaker 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo News Defence review calls for cadet expansion – despite DfE funding cut Call from the Ministry of Defence comes less than a year after the DfE scrapped its £1.1m contribution to… Freddie Whittaker 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo Policy Headteacher appointed as new DfE ‘school leader adviser’ Maintained school headteacher Andrew O’Neill to deliver ‘frontline expertise directly into the heart of policy-making’, government says Schools Week Reporter 4mo Schools Week Reporter 4mo Teacher strikes Striking teachers tell trust to extend lunch break instead of lessons Teachers across 14 Outwood Grange trust schools to strike this week over plans to extend day past 2.30pm Jack Dyson 4mo Jack Dyson 4mo Movers and Shakers MAT names inclusion director as new CEO Incoming Anthem Schools Trust boss set to leave one of England’s biggest MATs for new role Jack Dyson 4mo Jack Dyson 4mo Academies More schools miss out as ‘lottery’ repair grants fall again Just 35 per cent of schools that applied for condition improvement funding get cash Jack Dyson 4mo Jack Dyson 4mo SEND DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4mo News Child poverty: Schools ‘have no time’ to wait for strategy Unions urge government not to ‘kick the can down the road’ amid reports of delays to flagship Labour strategy Jack Dyson 4mo Jack Dyson 4mo Academies Biggest-ever academy trust merger given minister greenlight Catholic mega MAT set to become second biggest in England as bosses eye September launch Jack Dyson 5mo Jack Dyson 5mo Newer 1 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1,001 Older
