News A NEU dawn: NUT and ATL hold final conferences The National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers held their last conferences as separate unions over… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Related-party transactions in schools: the debate Schools should be forced to run related-party transactions past the government for prior approval, a powerful parliamentary committee has… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Exclusive CEOs at tiny academy trusts paid more than big-chain bosses Chief executives at some small academy trusts are raking in salaries as high as those with 10 times the… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Mind the gap: The best and worst gender-based pay at multi-academy trusts In 2017, the government passed a law forcing every organisation with 250 or more employees to publish specific figures… Alix Robertson 7y Alix Robertson 7y News One in three reception children aren’t ‘school ready’, warns Teach First Nearly one in three children who start primary school in England at the age of five are not “school… Alix Robertson 7y Alix Robertson 7y News Weak schools will get longer breather between Ofsted inspections Schools with “serious weaknesses” will get an additional year to turn around their fortunes under changes announced by Ofsted… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Troops to Teachers: Quarter of all trainees quit course without qualifying One in four participants in the government’s doomed ‘Troops to Teachers’ course quit before earning their teaching qualification, Schools… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive Government under pressure to reveal plans for ‘free’ teacher vacancy service The government is under mounting pressure to reveal detailed plans for its new teacher vacancy website and explain how… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive Most locked-out trainee teachers have failed their QTS skills test resits Just six per cent of would-be trainee teachers locked out of the pre-qualifying test for their courses under old… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Men get promoted more quickly, and 4 other findings from new school leadership research The proportion of women appointed to leadership roles in schools is rising, but men are still being promoted more… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Application process for strategic school improvement fund was ‘unfit for purpose’ The first application round for the £140 million strategic school improvement fund was neither fair nor transparent according to… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News ATL: ‘Keep parents from selectively withdrawing pupils from RE’ ATL has voted to stop parents “selectively” withdrawing their children from religious education lessons, claiming the practice is increasingly… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 973 Older