News Exclusive Parents in legal challenge over grammar schools’ plan to reduce 11-plus pass mark Parents are raising cash to challenge an academy trust’s plans to lower the pass mark for entry to its… John Dickens 6y John Dickens 6y News ‘Leadership void’ at the DfE gives us time to think, says former schools commissioner The former national schools commissioner says the Department for Education has a “leadership vacuum” with no clear vision for… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive Charity commission looks into £50k consultancy fees paid to former education secretary The charity commission is looking into whether a school improvement charity has broken rules over “consultancy” fees of more… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News PM dodges questions about ‘workhouse’-style recommendations of cost-saving advisers The prime minister this week dodged questions about her government’s cost-saving interventions in schools, despite claims the advice “belonged… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive Ministers have U-turned on 33 attempts to force schools to become academies The government has revoked more than 30 academy orders, some after schools have spent years in limbo and often… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Academies Enterprise Trust warned it could lose ‘inadequate’ primary school England’s biggest academy chain has been warned it could lose one of its schools after it was placed in… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive England’s largest academy trusts see gender pay gap widen The gender pay gap has widened at most of the country’s largest academy trusts, with women paid 55p for… John Dickens 6y John Dickens 6y News Heads demand Ofsted consider ‘uneven school funding’ A group of leading headteachers wants Ofsted to take the “uneven funding” of schools into account as part of… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link Poor pupils in rural schools are more likely to get low GCSE scores than their disadvantaged peers in every… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exclusive Exposed: The academy trust chief who boasted he ‘flicked away’ safeguarding concerns An academy trust boss has boasted that he simply “flicked away” safeguarding complaints made by a whistleblower at a… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Hinds demands end to ‘unethical’ unconditional offers The education secretary has warned 23 universities regarding their use of “unethical” unconditional offers, following warnings that school pupils… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive LocatED shortlists up to 20 school sites to be sold off under pilot scheme Up to 20 school sites have been shortlisted by the government’s education property company as having surplus land that… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y Newer 1 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 980 Older
