News

Zahawi encourages vaccine take-up as schools rollout flags

The education and health secretaries have urged parents to get their children vaccinated as the school Covid jab programme…

James Carr
James Carr
Social mobility

Katharine Birbalsingh to become government’s new social mobility tsar

Country’s ‘strictest head’ previously said ‘woke are racist’ and warned against teaching “white privilege”

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

LA schools left out of new ministers’ travel plans

Fifty-five per cent of schools visited by new ministers so far have been academies

James Carr
James Carr
Academies

Zahawi won’t set ‘arbitrary deadline’ for academy ambition

Education secretary faces calls for clarity over academies plans

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Bring back bubbles and masks in classroom, unions tell Zahawi

A joint letter from five unions, also sent to councils, calls for urgent action as cases rise

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Politics

Zahawi pledges to put wellbeing ‘at the centre of everything we do in schools’

Education secretary to address heads in first speech to sector today

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News

1 in 15 secondary pupils now test positive for Covid

Secondary school pupils have the highest Covid positivity rate of any age group in England

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

Trustees leave as new investigation opens at Holland Park

School dubbed the ‘Socialist Eton’ has faced allegations of a ‘toxic’ working culture and ‘public shaming’ of students

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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