News Heads enticed with conference tickets to attend ‘hosted meetings’ A major new education conference is offering free tickets and expenses of up to £750 in return for headteachers… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News DfE plans new funding ‘centre of excellence’ team The government is preparing to launch a funding “centre of excellence” that will be led by its first overall… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Four in five heads contribute to their schools’ finances Four in five headteachers contribute to their schools’ finances from their own pockets, and the amount they are contributing… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Hinds to face education committee grilling over academy accountability and exclusions Damian Hinds has been summoned to appear in front of MPs to answer questions about academy trust accountability, exclusions… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Ministers turn to musicians to design new ‘model curriculum’ A new model music curriculum for schools will be drawn up by an independent panel of experts, the government… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive Tory peer’s academy trust seeks unpaid workers An academy trust founded by a Conservative peer is advertising for unpaid volunteers to fill key roles, as plans… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive DfE to test and ‘quality-mark’ education apps The Department for Education plans to assess and “quality-mark” smartphone and tablet education apps for younger pupils. Officials will… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive School budgets raided of £22m to replace scrapped ESG funding School budgets have been raided to the tune of tens of millions of pounds by cash-strapped councils scrambling to… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive The Seldon List: OECD chief and schools minister top trad-dominated education influencers list Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s education chief, Nick Gibb, the schools minister, and Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, have… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Four-fifths of LAs could wipe out school deficits by clawing back ‘excess’ surplus, EPI study finds The Education Policy Institute has published a deeper dive into recently released spending data for local authority schools. The… John Dickens 7y John Dickens 7y News Update us annually on school mental health plan progress, MPs tell ministers MPs want annual updates from the government on its plan to introduce new mental health support teams to work… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Some free schools were always ‘bound to fail’, admits former minister Some free schools were always “bound to fail”, one of the main architects of the programme has admitted. Lord… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 986 Older
