Academies

Council ditches ‘forced’ academisation plan as Zahawi softens stance

Tory-led Swindon had proposed to convert all schools to academies by 2025 before a U-turn

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Academy CEOs earn £127k on average, and men get £15k more

New benchmarking tool sheds more light on executive pay in the academies sector

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

£184m NPQs funding now available to all schools after DfE U-turn

Funding for four of six qualifications was previously due to be limited to staff in deprived schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Feature, News

The battle for the future of assessment: ‘We must hasten slowly’

Commissions, reviews and reports on the future of assessment and exams are springing up everywhere. Schools Week investigates …  …

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

‘Breathtaking arrogance’: Pair convicted of running illegal school for second time

Father and daughter were convicted of the same offence in 2019

James Carr
James Carr
Academies

Nominations open for RSC adviser elections

The DfE wants more academy chiefs from under-represented backgrounds to run for election as advisers to regional schools commissioners

Tom Belger
Tom Belger


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