News

Ofqual investigates extra exam time at private schools

Forty-two per cent of private school pupils get extra time, compared to 26.5 per cent of state pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted, Teacher training

Ofsted in talks with DfE about delaying ITT inspections

Providers due to be inspected from January are still waiting for guidance over how new reforms will be judged

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

Are school teachers really ‘enslaved’? Here’s what the data says

Labour’s school tsar has warned of a ‘shadow compliance culture’. But what do things look like on the ground?

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Ofsted proposes giving schools one of five ratings across 10 areas

Plans for report cards shared with leaders show schools graded from ‘exemplary’ to ‘causing concern’ against areas including…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Government to review teacher development delivery

Sheffield Hallam University appointed to review and develop a ‘theory of change’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
School improvement

School improvement unaffordable for country’s biggest council

Revelation comes as ministers want local authorities to help drive their new standards agenda

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Schools

New body launched to give council schools policy voice

New Maintained School Collective wants to provide a supportive network for council schools to collaborate

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

The Lilac Sky files: CEO accused of paying own firms after standing down

Schools Week can reveal the bombshell allegations behind a decision to ban Trevor Averre-Beeson from managing schools

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Special schools ‘pushed towards crisis’ in Derbyshire

Inspectors found ‘widespread and/or systemic failings’ in Derbyshire’s local authority and health services

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Pensions

First rise in teachers’ pension contributions since 2015 proposed

Plans would see employee contribution rates rise by up to £200 a year – but lowest-paid would not be…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Equipping TAs for the Rise in SEND: How Schools Can Benefit from the Specialist Teaching Assistant (STA) Apprenticeship

The Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant apprenticeship opens up a new government-funded career pathway for teaching assistants. Here’s how…

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Educational & Sporting Futures
News

DfE told to abolish ‘overwhelmingly negative’ T-level transition course

Think tank says foundation year is ‘failing’ in main aim – promoting progression to T-levels

Freddie Whittaker
Anviksha Patel