News State schools fall behind in harnessing alumni to boost pupils’ job prospects Private schools are more than twice as likely as their state counterparts to call on alumni to help open… Kathryn Snowdon 6y Kathryn Snowdon 6y News 17 new free schools opened with no sports facilities Seventeen free schools that opened last year did not have any on-site sports facilities, the government has admitted. A… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Labour pledges 32-hour working week, but will it work for teachers? School staff and other workers across England have been promised “a shorter working week with no loss of pay”… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Boss of failed WCAT ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen for his offices’ The head of Wakefield City Academies Trust spent £1,500 on a dog pen for his offices as his trust… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Anti-private school motion passes at Labour conference Delegates at the Labour Party conference have passed a motion calling on the party to “integrate” private schools into… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y LPC, News, Politics Angela Rayner: Full text of Labour Conference 2019 speech Labour activists heard from Angela Rayner at the party’s annual conference this morning. Here is what she said. Conference,… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y LPC, News, Politics The 4 schools policies in Angela Rayner’s Labour conference speech Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, has addressed the Labour Party conference in Brighton. In a short speech, Rayner… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive CPD firms struggle as funding squeeze shifts landscape Two major school membership organisations have posted losses as schools tighten their belts in the face of budget restraints…. John Dickens 6y John Dickens 6y News Labour would replace Ofsted with Local Authority ‘health checks’ A Labour government would replace Ofsted with a new inspection system involving local authorities running “health checks” on schools…. Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Ofsted recruits 30 inspectors to ramp up outstanding school visits Ofsted has launched a £2 million pound recruitment push ahead of the expected lifting of the exemption for “outstanding”… Kathryn Snowdon 6y Kathryn Snowdon 6y News Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2019 The new teacher and school leadership pay rates for 2019-20 have been confirmed by the Department for Education. In July,… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive Investigation: The free schools left homeless for years Almost half of the new free schools of the past three years opened in temporary accommodation, with most still… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Newer 1 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 980 Older