Education policy

School improvement teams ‘will offer support to all’

New regional teams pledged in Labour manifesto will be rolled out from early 2025

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Oak National Academy

Meet Aila, Oak Academy’s new AI assistant

Union leader hopes the tool ‘gives teachers their Sunday nights back’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Attendance

New council seeks solutions to ‘lost learning’ from absence and exclusions

Research finds 32 million days were lost to unauthorised absence and exclusions in 2022-23

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Phillipson meets with unions to plan new ‘partnership’ model

Unions and employers would be asked for perspectives at ‘early stage’ of policy development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted names new ‘external reference group’ members

Groups will offer ‘independent advice and challenge’ as watchdog embarks on wide-ranging reforms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Some Ofsted reports will seem more positive without headline grades

Three in five schools rated ‘requires improvement’ last year had two or more ‘good’ sub-grades

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Academies

Academies Enterprise Trust rebrands as Lift Schools

Move will match trust’s ‘grown ambitions’, boss says

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ofsted’s Big Listen: The 12 policies schools need to know

Monday Ofsted calls, reformed framework and new safeguarding letters announced

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Gilbert review: Ofsted ‘defensive and complacent’ after head’s death

Former inspector Dame Christine Gilbert’s damning review found the headteacher’s suicide ‘shone a light on a climate of fear…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

‘Inclusion’ a key ‘criterion’ for new Ofsted report cards

Schools that turn away SEND pupils face being ‘graded down’, says chief inspector

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Trust ditches job titles like CEO to ‘avoid top-down control’

Dixons will instead have more than 20 staff called ‘school and college trust leaders’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ofsted headline grades scrapped: What schools need to know

Sub-judgments and intervention in worst-performing schools continue, but double RI rule scrapped

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker