News Inspiration boss Rachel de Souza urges heads: ‘Do not be servants of DfE policy’ The boss of a high-profile academy trust has urged headteachers “not to be servants of DfE policy”, or take… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exclusive Buckinghamshire school support company goes into liquidation A company which provided school improvement, governor support and other services to hundreds of schools in Buckinghamshire is to… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Small ‘good’ schools may get exemption from longer inspections The country’s smallest ‘good’-rated primary schools may avoid having new two-day inspections under Ofsted’s proposed inspection framework, one of… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Ofsted director brands legal challenges ‘colossal waste of money’, tells schools to ‘bring it on’ Legal challenges by schools over Ofsted judgments are often a “colossal waste of taxpayers’ money”, a senior inspector has… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for BTECs The government is considering withdrawing funding for BTECs and other qualifications that “overlap” with A-levels, Damian Hinds has announced…. Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Exclusive Two-fifths of schools have buckets catching drips from leaky roofs Two in five teachers work in schools that have buckets set up to catch drips when it rains, it… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Microsoft researcher to head up new National Centre for Computing Education A Microsoft researcher who also chairs the group behind the controversial master computing teachers programme has been put in… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Inspectors must declare all consultancy work after rule change Ofsted has tightened its conflicts of interest rules, with inspectors now forced to declare all of their previous and… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exclusive Rejected special school bids in areas facing biggest shortfalls The majority of local authorities that have been refused new specialist schools will run out of places three years… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Exclusive Let grammars use expansion cash to help secondary moderns, says leading head A leading grammar head wants expansion cash redirected to encourage selective schools to give support to secondary moderns. This… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Improving schools won’t suffer under new inspection framework – Spielman The chief inspector of schools has sought to reassure headteachers that improving schools will not be penalised under Ofsted’s… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Ofsted plans to entice middle leaders for inspection secondments Ofsted is to launch a secondment programme for middle leaders who want to spend a year working as full-time… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y Newer 1 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 980 Older
