News

Safeguarding failures exposed as trust’s High Court challenge thrown out

Khalsa Academies Trust’s bid to overturn a government termination warning thrown out of court

James Carr
James Carr
Careers

Mandatory college visits in pipeline for pupils’ careers education

The measure will feature as government amendments in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Covid

Covid vaccinations in schools lag behind demand

Experts are now calling for walk-in centres to boost the inoculation of 12 to 15-year olds

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

Directed time cap safeguarded as schools extend hours

Schools Week finds leaders are already running extended school days within the 1,265 hour rule

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Schools swap salmon for sandwiches as food supply problems bite

Nearly 500 primary schools in Lancashire are offering a cut-back menu for two weeks

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Experts challenge ministers over £3k ‘levelling up premium’

Details are scarce on policy rehashed from retention scheme scrapped in 2020

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


School funding

State V private school funding gap widens

IfS analysis finds average private school fees are now 92 per cent higher than state funding

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School Leadership

NAHT wants more support to ease heads’ workload

Leaders’ union will debate conference motion to investigate how to better support workloads

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
News

Schools can seek Ofsted deferral for vaccine clashes

DfE tells heads vaccine rollout ‘should take priority’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Education sex abuse helpline granted three-month lifeline

A child sex abuse helpline set up in the wake of the allegations posted on the Everyone’s Invited website…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

2021 autumn A-level ‘resit’ entries plummet 56%

Ofqual reveals just 8,880 entries have been made for autumn A-level exams, down from 20,100 in 2020

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Just 2% of promised CO2 monitors delivered to schools

But education secretary says deliveries will ‘ramp up’ in November

John Dickens
John Dickens