News

Capita admitted SIMS bug on day it was handed £109m primary testing contract

Outsourcing firm Capita has refused to say when it first became aware of a computer bug that risks corrupting…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

UTC becomes first school with cameras in every classroom

A university technical college in Birmingham has become the first school in the country to install always-on, 360-degree cameras…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Full national funding formula roll-out delayed until 2021

The government’s new national funding formula will not be rolled out fully until 2021 after ministers delayed its implementation…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

The national reference test cost more than £2m, and six other things we learned from Ofqual’s annual report

The exams regulator Ofqual has published its annual report and accounts for 2017-18. Schools Week rounded up some of the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

9 things we learned from ESFA’s first annual report and accounts

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has published its first annual report and accounts, revealing millions given away in…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

DfE spent £115m on doomed free schools, UTCs and studio schools

The Department for Education spent more than £115 million on free school projects that went on to fail, new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News

Relationships and sex education: What should schools do?

Draft statutory guidance on the new relationships and sex education curriculum has finally been published. The 38-page document sets…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE releases 15 more private school warning notices

The government has published 15 more warning notices identifying failings at private schools around the country. About half of the notices,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Big rise in transfers of academies to new sponsors

The number of academies moving to a different trust has increased by almost a third in one year to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Exclusions rise for the third year in a row

The proportion of pupils permanently excluded from school has risen for the third year in a row, government data…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Heads will decide if pupils can be withdrawn from sex education

It will be up to headteachers to decide whether their pupils can withdraw from sex education in their schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools will teach ‘health education’ as part of RSE reforms

Schools will have to teach pupils about the benefits of a healthier lifestyle and how to build mental resilience,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg