Academies

Legal threats and governor revolts: Inside the mass academisation of Catholic schools

The Catholic MAT drive boosts the DfE’s flagging academy agenda, and dioceses say schools are reaping rewards – but…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Fewer than 1 in 100 schools affected by ‘levelling-up’ academies plan

DfE wants ‘successive’ ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate’ schools moved into MATs

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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
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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
Assessment

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

Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are ‘inequitable and unreliable’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth