School budgets Long read Outsourced contract rises hit school catering budgets Schools forced to shell out more for contractors as they face triple whammy of food, wage and NI rises Rhi Storer 6mo Rhi Storer 6mo Schools DfE bans former head of ‘holistic’ AP school after Ofsted safety concerns Ofsted inspectors found pupils at the Devon school could access nearby train tracks and industrial units Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Funding Schools’ repair bill ‘much higher’ than £13.8bn estimate High-ranking Whitehall official warns cost to fix crumbling estate ‘almost certain’ to be more than thought Jack Dyson 6mo Jack Dyson 6mo SEND Investigation Councils splurge £18m on private special schools with repeated failures Millions funnelled in just one year to settings that have failed independent school standards Rosa Furneaux 6mo Rosa Furneaux 6mo Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted looks at renaming new ‘secure’ grade Watchdog has been warned parents may not know where the word fits on its proposed new sliding scale Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo News Oli de Botton appointed ‘expert adviser’ to Starmer on education Former head will leave role at the Careers and Enterprise Company this month Freddie Whittaker 6mo Freddie Whittaker 6mo Nursery Revealed: The first 300 schools splitting £37m nursery cash Ministers announced last June they would repurpose empty primary school classrooms to create 100,000 childcare places in 3,334 settings Freddie Whittaker 6mo Freddie Whittaker 6mo School funding Teacher union reports ‘surge’ in concerns about redundancies NASUWT leader says he raised ‘serious concerns’ with government about funding in December Freddie Whittaker 6mo Freddie Whittaker 6mo AI Using AI to judge writing could ‘revolutionise’ assessment – trial No More Marking says its trial found AI is ‘very good at judging student writing and is a viable… Freddie Whittaker 6mo Freddie Whittaker 6mo Ofsted Peerage for ex-Ofsted chief ‘inappropriate’ say heads Concerns follow reports Amanda Spielman will be elevated to the House of Lords by the Conservatives Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Schools Struggling readers spotted by eye-tracking software trial Schools point to ‘amazing’ results, but privacy campaigners raise concerns about use of data Rhi Storer 6mo Rhi Storer 6mo Exams Long read The schools working hard for the ‘forgotten third’ Every year, about a third of GCSE pupils in England do not achieve a grade 4 in English and… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 7mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 7mo Newer 1 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 1,001 Older
