News Exclusive TSC head defends ‘high bar’ as 3 in 4 teaching school hub bids rejected Just one in four applicants to the government’s new teaching school hubs programme were approved, new figures show. Data… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News ‘Gross intellectual snobbery’ – former Ofsted strategy chief hits back at academy CEOs Claims by leading academy bosses that Ofsted’s new inspection regime favours middle-class pupils have been dismissed as “nonsense” by… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Ofsted to investigate schools’ financial decision-making Ofsted is set to begin diving into schools’ financial decision-making to test if it provides “more insight” into the… James Carr 6y James Carr 6y News Exclusive Former Tory policy chief to advise Gavin Williamson at DfE Former Conservative Party researcher and policy chief Innes Taylor has been appointed as a special adviser at the Department… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive Is the DfE’s teaching ad spend paying off? The government’s annual spend on teacher recruitment adverts has continued to rise and is now costing an average of… James Carr 6y James Carr 6y News Exclusive Academy CEO still ‘absent’ as whistleblower probe continues An academy boss who has been absent from his own trust since April after threatening to “deal with” a… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Leading CEOs: New Ofsted inspections favour middle-class kids The heads of two of the country’s most successful academy trusts have slammed Ofsted’s new regime – claiming “it… John Dickens 6y John Dickens 6y News Financial warning for trust that ‘cannot identify’ its own trustees A struggling academy trust that cannot “accurately” identify its members and trustees has been told it must improve its… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive Ofsted running unofficial ‘sub-grade system’ Ofsted is now issuing caveats to schools retaining their grades in short inspections, a practice experts warn is establishing… James Carr 6y James Carr 6y News Single-school academy trust head’s pay soars to £280k The head of an academy trust with just one school saw his pay rise to at least £280,000 last… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Employment and completion rates aren’t a good way to measure quality of ITE, finds Ofsted Outcome measures are not an effective indicator of the quality of initial teacher education, because the recruitment landscape means… James Carr 6y James Carr 6y Feature, News What’s preventing more schools from accessing apprenticeships? Almost three years after the launch of the apprenticeship levy, schools are still struggling to find ways to spend… JL Dutaut 6y JL Dutaut 6y Newer 1 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 987 Older