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 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y 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 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y 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 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y 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 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y 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 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y 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 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y 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 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y 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 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y 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 7y John Dickens 7y 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 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive DfE plans new national computing SCITT despite other centres struggling to recruit The government is planning a new national SCITT for computing, despite other subject-specific training centres failing to hit recruitment… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Exclusive DfE spent £15k defending nationality data collection months before it was scrapped The Department for Education spent almost £15,000 defending its divisive pupil nationality and country of birth data collection in… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 1,005 Older
