News Academies giant AET gets second school improvement warning in a matter of weeks Another school run by the Academies Enterprise Trust is in hot water and may be rebrokered to another sponsor… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News No ‘parental veto’ on relationships and sex education curriculum, insists Hinds The education secretary has reassured headteachers that consulting with parents about new relationships and sex education “does not provide… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Academy with £20 million PFI contract ordered to improve its finances A school tied into a £20 million PFI contract and with “significant” deficits forecast this year has been ordered… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Some teachers barely earn the minimum wage, warn union leaders Some new teachers are barely earning the national minimum wage because of their pay and the hours they work,… Freddie Whittaker 6y Freddie Whittaker 6y News Government-run teacher vacancy website goes live across England The government’s long-awaited teacher vacancy advertising service has finally gone live across England, weeks later than planned. Ministers initially… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y 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 Newer 1 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 986 Older