News

Ex-WCAT schools won’t get any money back

Schools that were part of the failed Wakefield City Academies Trust won’t get back any of the money that…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Revealed: Councils paid £700k to ‘unsafe’ illegal school

Local authorities have been urged to maintain a list of registered independent education providers after it emerged six councils…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Purdah adds further delay to 5 late government consultations

Ministers are yet to respond to five consultations on new reforms as government shuts down for purdah, including one…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Revealed: DfE in £3m bailout of government-approved ICT supplier

The Department for Education paid £3 million to stop a cash-strapped ICT supplier to schools collapsing after it entered…

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Number of teachers banned for life has halved

The number of teachers banned from the profession for life without the right to appeal last year has almost…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

DfE expects school improvement too quickly, says former RSC

Failing schools need time to turn around, despite the Department for Education’s expectation of “quick” results, says a former…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News, Politics

Fact check: Conservative figures for Labour education spending don’t add up

The Conservative party’s high-profile dossier revealing the “£1.2 trillion cost” of Labour’s policies includes details for a schools policy…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

CEO: My trust ‘pays the price’ for being inclusive

An academy trust boss has said there is a “price to pay” in performance tables for having low exclusion…

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Tory candidate wants grammar school in Croydon despite ban

The Conservative candidate for Croydon South told voters in an election video he “wants to see” a grammar school…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

‘They think it’s exclusive…but it’s done on a massive scale’ – inside the glossy mag that charges schools £3,500 for exposure

The Parliamentary Review “misleadingly implied” it was an official government magazine, the advertising watchdog has ruled. A Schools Week…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

4 key proposals from the Headteachers’ Roundtable election manifesto

The Headteachers’ Roundtable has today published its general election 2019 manifesto. The focus is on obtaining sufficient funding and…

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Williamson’s plea for festive joy falls on deaf ears

Councils across England have snubbed Gavin Williamson’s offer of extra funding to find alternative polling stations so school nativities…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker