News

Ofsted: Mainstream accountability focus risks SEND ‘flexibility’

Leaders said staff shortages were a ‘barrier to meeting children and young people’s aspirations for the future’, the report…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Schools

11-hour school day pays dividends

A report showed missed homework sanctions were down 12 per cent and stars for good behaviour were up 16…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
School buildings

Council barred from using £200k grant to repair schools

Barnet council wanted to move the cash from its dedicated schools grant reserves for ‘urgent and unbudgeted repairs’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Brighton academy trust ditches controversial 20% GAG-pool

Trust rocked by strikes ‘committed to ending’ GAG pooling policy, as it opts to top-slice instead

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

‘No evidence’ streaming and setting harms poorer pupils’ outcomes – study

But study also finds ‘tentative signs’ primary teachers feel more comfortable supporting struggling students when ability grouping is used

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exclusions

£21k fine for exclusions ‘won’t happen’, says council official

Devon had planned to introduce an exclusions levy under a push for inclusion

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Ofqual

MPs give Sir Ian Bauckham the nod for Ofqual top job

MPs hope he will serve a full term and ‘restore much-needed stability’ to Ofqual

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Academy trusts offer schools £25k ‘golden hellos’ as DfE grant dropped

The government will scrap grants to aid schools convert to academy status in the new year

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

Sir Kevan Collins interview: ‘We’re making MATs accountable’

England’s school system has ‘practice we should be proud of’, but ‘pockets that we should be ashamed of’, says…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Ofsted

Is Ofsted right to fear the rise of flexi-schooling? 

‘A switched-on parent can do more in 40 minutes of one-to-one than a class’

Freddie Whittaker
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Solutions

Nine-day fortnight proves a big hit with Dixons staff

One term in, Schools Week visited Dixons Fazakerley Academy, in Liverpool, to see how it’s going…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

SEND tribunals soar by 55%, and almost all still side with families

Ministry of Justice reports 21,000 SEN appeals in 2023-24, up from less than 14,000 the year before

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker