News Exclusive Limit pupils’ lunch portions to save money, say Agnew’s cost-cutting advisers Lord Agnew’s cost-cutting consultants told a school to replace experienced teachers with support staff on term-time contracts, while another… John Dickens 6y John Dickens 6y News £45k-a-year private school warned over ‘serious regulatory failings’ A private school that charges over £45,000 a year has been warned it could be closed down by the… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News School capacity improves slightly as secondaries prepare for population bulge The proportion of schools that were full or over-capacity fell slightly last year, new data shows. Department for Education… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Ofsted: Just 23% of reinspected outstanding schools kept their grade More than three quarters of ‘outstanding’ schools reinspected by Ofsted in the last four months of last year failed… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Councils wary of challenging ‘powerful’ academy CEOs over exclusions, warns Wilshaw Councils have become “wary” of intervening with “powerful” academy trust CEOs over exclusions because they have been “marginalised” in… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Pooling school budgets ‘wasn’t as painful as you might think’, says academy trust boss The leader of one of England’s largest academy trusts has revealed she was forced to pool her schools’ funding… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive David Ross Education Trust appoints Christine Counsell to help develop new curriculum A leading curriculum expert has joined the David Ross Education Trust as it steps up its focus on developing… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive The DfE doesn’t like its own GCSE pass thresholds, claims Forgotten Third inquiry chair The Department for Education is no fan of its own pass thresholds for GCSEs, according to the chair of… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Schools have lost £5.4bn since 2015, unions claim Schools face a funding shortfall of £5.4 billion despite extra funding to cover teacher pay rises, six unions have… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News DfE ‘considering options’ for free sanitary products in primaries The government is “considering options” for supporting primary school children with access to free sanitary products, a minister has… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Brexit nudges funding formula to the back of the line The national funding formula sits in the wings while the government attempts to sort Brexit. But is it worth… John Dickens 6y John Dickens 6y News Exclusive ESFA spends over £500k on cash awards for staff The Education and Skills Funding Agency spent more than £500,000 on cash awards for civil servants last year. A… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Newer 1 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 980 Older