SEND Investigation Councils splurge £18m on private special schools with repeated failures Millions funnelled in just one year to settings that have failed independent school standards Rosa Furneaux 5mo Rosa Furneaux 5mo Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted looks at renaming new ‘secure’ grade Watchdog has been warned parents may not know where the word fits on its proposed new sliding scale Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5mo News Oli de Botton appointed ‘expert adviser’ to Starmer on education Former head will leave role at the Careers and Enterprise Company this month Freddie Whittaker 5mo Freddie Whittaker 5mo Nursery Revealed: The first 300 schools splitting £37m nursery cash Ministers announced last June they would repurpose empty primary school classrooms to create 100,000 childcare places in 3,334 settings Freddie Whittaker 5mo Freddie Whittaker 5mo School funding Teacher union reports ‘surge’ in concerns about redundancies NASUWT leader says he raised ‘serious concerns’ with government about funding in December Freddie Whittaker 5mo Freddie Whittaker 5mo AI Using AI to judge writing could ‘revolutionise’ assessment – trial No More Marking says its trial found AI is ‘very good at judging student writing and is a viable… Freddie Whittaker 5mo Freddie Whittaker 5mo Ofsted Peerage for ex-Ofsted chief ‘inappropriate’ say heads Concerns follow reports Amanda Spielman will be elevated to the House of Lords by the Conservatives Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5mo Schools Struggling readers spotted by eye-tracking software trial Schools point to ‘amazing’ results, but privacy campaigners raise concerns about use of data Rhi Storer 5mo Rhi Storer 5mo Exams Long read The schools working hard for the ‘forgotten third’ Every year, about a third of GCSE pupils in England do not achieve a grade 4 in English and… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 5mo Oracy Exclusive Oracy chair reassured it ‘will be woven’ into curriculum review final report Geoff Barton speaks of need to get oracy into ‘bloodstream of the profession’ before final review report Rhi Storer 5mo Rhi Storer 5mo School funding Exclusive Schools warn of staff cuts as Reeves snubs sector Leaders face having to make redundancies, curriculum squeezes and cuts to programmes supporting the poorest pupils Jack Dyson 5mo Jack Dyson 5mo School funding Exclusive Cost-cutters’ savings ‘won’t compensate’ for inadequate funding DfE advisers identified £400m of potential cuts last year, but although schools cut more, they could still only implement… Jack Dyson 5mo Jack Dyson 5mo Newer 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 991 Older