News Exclusive Minister ‘at war’ over academy CEO pay defends Moynihan’s £440k salary A minister who claims to have “declared war” on excessive executive pay in academies has ruled that the £440,000… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive Private school caps value of Christmas gifts for teachers A prestigious private girls’ school has written to parents urging them to cap the value of Christmas gifts for… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive It’s a Dwan deal: Trust founder’s brother gets rent-free premises for nursery A failed academy trust gave the brother of its founder rent-free premises for ten years to run a private… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Toby Young got £55k payoff from New Schools Network The New Schools Network handed its former director Toby Young a £55,000 payoff when he resigned earlier this year,… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Ofsted’s curriculum focus ‘risks being a tick-box exercise’ Ofsted’s focus on curriculum risks being a tick-box exercise that does nothing to assess whether children are actually learning,… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y News EBacc ‘not had much effect’ on MFL uptake, admits DfE official The EBacc has “not had much effect” on take-up in modern foreign languages, a senior Department for Education official… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Ofsted ‘worried’ heads are failing to delegate curriculum design to subject leads Some headteachers are doing “all the thinking” about the school’s curriculum when they should be delegating more responsibility to… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Teacher training targets missed in most EBacc subjects The government has missed its own teacher training targets in most EBacc subjects this year, new data shows. Initial… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Only schools with ‘excellent’ arts provision should be rated outstanding, says charity Ofsted should save its coveted ‘outstanding’ rating for schools which excel in creative and technical teaching in an effort to… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News One in three school pupils received an unconditional offer in 2018, says UCAS More than one in three school pupils who applied to university this year received some kind of unconditional offer… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News New policy role for former government education adviser Jonathan Simons Former government adviser and Policy Exchange head of education Jonathan Simons has joined the policy and PR consultancy Public… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News ‘Significant number’ of examiners unhappy with online standardisation Large numbers of examiners aren’t happy with the system currently used to standardise their marking, a new report from… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 980 Older