Ofsted

Ofsted swoops after brawl in school canteen on TikTok

School receives unannounced visit following complaints from parents

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

‘Investment area’ schools have £19m of repairs cash cut

Shake-up of school condition allocation grants will leave trusts, councils and dioceses tens of millions worse-off

Tom Belger
Tom Belger and Samantha Booth
News

Schools can be ‘nominated’ for rebuilding programme

Ministers will also select up to 300 projects at once for the next phase of the scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Behaviour and exclusions consultation: What schools need to know

Don’t use ‘no exclusion’ policies and set out mobile phone use mitigations, government says

James Carr
James Carr
News

Plans for register of home educated children hang on extra funding

Key details – such as how sanctions for non-compliance would work – also still to be ‘worked through’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers should ‘seriously consider’ revoking Randstad’s NTP contract, says Halfon

Education committee chair makes major intervention over tutor scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Schools

Levelling-up white paper: 9 things schools need to know

New ‘UK National Academy’ planned to ‘stretch’ children ‘beyond the curriculum’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Sponsored post

How to bring out the artist in every child with Sky Arts

Make 2022 a year of creativity with Access All Arts – a free, jam-packed, fun-filled celebration of the arts…

Sky Arts
Sky Arts
Ofsted

No need to design your own curriculum, Ofsted tells primaries

Smaller schools can pool their resources when developing curriculum, watchdog says

James Carr
James Carr
Exams

Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review

Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are ‘inequitable and unreliable’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE clamps down on loophole allowing fraudsters in classrooms

New banning powers would also apply to ex-teachers and those in online schools

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

55 ‘education investment areas’ named for £3k teacher retention payments

DfE wants 90% of primary pupils to meet ‘expected standard’, but ‘levelling up’ announcement includes no new money

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker