Election 2024

Starmer pledges to ‘repair our public services’ after historic victory

Incoming prime minister promises ‘mission of national renewal to rebuild our country’ after Labour landslide

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Governance

Promised national governor recruitment campaign in limbo

Sector leader hopes Labour government will rekindle plan for hiring push

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Election 2024: Education secretary Gillian Keegan loses her seat

Loss in Chichester to the Lib Dems comes amid disastrous night for the Tories

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Election 2024: ‘The British people have chosen change’ – Phillipson

Labour government will be powered by ‘belief that tomorrow could not just be different from today, but better’ says…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Key proposals from Schools Week’s manifesto for change 

Practical ideas from the sector’s best and brightest

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Election 2024

Starmer cabinet would be most comprehensively educated ever 

More than 8 in 10 members of the shadow cabinet went to comprehensive schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Election 2024

5 big schools policy hurdles for the next government

Politics guru Sam Freedman and trust boss Lucy Heller set out the education changes coming, and the hurdles

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Election 2024

Labour will ‘turn the tide’ on child poverty, says ex-PM Brown

Rayner also says issue will be ‘responsibility of the whole cabinet’ to resolve

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
MAT funding

Trust staff go on strike as GAG pooling row escalates

First strikes over MAT central charges start as union demands radical changes to trust’s GAG pooling policy

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Emergency capital cash handouts soar to £12m after funding squeeze

Funding for urgent work jumps 300% in 12 months, as experts warn figures are ‘sign of the times’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Election 2024

Gove’s ‘hero’ academy trust founder switches to Labour

Lord Harris says Tories ‘no longer party of high standards’ and Labour are now for those who ‘care about…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

Lack of MAT get-out clause sees strikes, petitions and open letters

Unrest at MATs shows allowing schools to leave trusts would create ‘much healthier relationships’, claims union rep, but how…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson