News More evidence needed to defend high salaries for CEOs of academy trusts Defences of high salaries for the chief executives of academy trusts are not “evidence-based or robust enough” to withstand… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y News Exclusive DfE keeps edtech demonstrator conflicts ‘action plan’ close to its chest The government has an “action plan” to address potential conflicts of interest in its edtech demonstrator contract with United… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Exclusive PFI Endgame: DfE steps in to ensure school handovers go to plan The Department for Education has launched a new unit to help transfer the first private finance initiative (PFI) schools… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y News Exclusive Consent workshops and reviews: schools respond to sex abuse claims A school named on the Everyone’s Invited website, set up to tackle rape culture, is to run compulsory “consent… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News Exclusive Tell us why pupils’ exam grades will be withheld, heads tell Ofqual Headteachers are demanding Ofqual come clean over why pupils might have exam grades “withheld” this summer. Ofqual’s chair and… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y News Poorest areas ‘most likely’ to have ‘significant weaknesses’ in SEND provision, says Ofsted The poorest areas of England are “most likely” to have “significant weaknesses” in their special educational needs and disabilities… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News Exclusive DfE claims Brexit has stalled grammar schools inclusion monitoring The government has claimed that Brexit hampered its monitoring of efforts to make grammar schools more inclusive, after admitting… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Exclusive Timpson two years on: Exclusions review chair wants action The author of a landmark exclusions review has secured a crunch meeting with ministers to kick them into action… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y News Exclusive £125k salary fails to attract boss for ‘orphan’ academy trust An academy trust for schools struggling to find sponsors is facing its own struggle to find a chief executive… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y News Exclusive Special school ‘ineffective’ during pandemic, says Ofsted A special school judged to be ineffective in providing education during the pandemic has been criticised by Ofsted for… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y News New Covid study finds no reading loss, but confirms maths drop Interim findings from another study into Covid lost learning have been published today. This one, funded by the Education… Schools Week Reporter 4y Schools Week Reporter 4y News DfE extends school leaders wellbeing service to 160 more heads with £62k A mental health and wellbeing support service for school leaders will be extended after an extra £62,000 in government… Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Newer 1 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 974 Older