News

Teaching assistant recruitment a struggle for 3 in 4 heads

Secondary and special schools need more to cope with rising SEND demand, but primaries are cutting numbers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Government funding ‘crucial’ to NPQs participants, finds DfE report

Revelation that just 12% believe their school would have funded NPQs without DfE cash comes after funding was slashed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools pay almost 100% mark-up for supply teachers – DfE study

Average secondary supply teacher pay is £150 a day, but schools shell out £291

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

New teacher training mentor rules ‘threaten recruitment’

Mentors must train for up to 20 hours and spend 1.5 hours a week with their mentees from this…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

Ofsted inspectors worry about mid-week deluge on duty desk

Move comes after Ofsted said it would inform schools of inspections on Mondays

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

Pupil behaviour worse and more teachers bullied, finds survey

Government report also reveals more teachers are working flexibly

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Tutoring

Just 1 in 6 schools to offer tutoring after NTP, research suggests

Tutoring ‘heavily reliant’ on the availability of ring fenced funding, NFER research found

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

Academy trust given ‘exceptional’ financial help over £6m deficit

Arthur Terry Learning Partnership blames economic landscape for its failure to balance budgets

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Building company ISG’s collapse stalls school rebuilds

Construction of new classrooms halts as ISG Construction Limited enters administration

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Does Labour have an academies problem?

DfE officials mull letting councils open schools again as they tackle two-tier system

John Dickens
John Dickens
Ofsted

Ofsted Academy to publish first training materials this term

New service will collate induction, training, learning, development and ‘good practice work’ in a single place

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Biggest academy trust merger ever as diocese eyes new mega MATs

Diocese plans to move its 236 schools into five trusts, including one chain that will become second-largest in England

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson