News Damian Hinds faces first education committee grilling The education secretary will take questions from MPs when he appears in front of the parliamentary education committee next… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Teach First opens leadership programme for struggling schools Struggling schools can now apply for a leadership development programme run by Teach First, with funding available for specialist… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News DfE to invite bids for wave of AP and special free schools The government will invite bids for a special wave of free schools for excluded pupils and those with special… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Review launched into educational outcomes of children in need A review by the Department for Education will examine and seek to improve the educational outcomes of children considered… Alix Robertson 7y Alix Robertson 7y News Exclusive Major Catholic academisation plans held up by doubters Plans by the Diocese of Westminster to convert over 200 schools into academies have hit a bump in the… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive Do the maths: Cost of new times-tables tests to top £5.2m New times-tables tests for nine-year-olds will cost the Department for Education more than £5 million to implement, Schools Week… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusions review and £4m ‘alternative provision fund’ unveiled There will be a new £4 million alternative provision fund to support excluded pupils to return to mainstream schools…. Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Deficit gap widens between LA schools and academies Local authority-maintained schools are increasingly slipping into deficit as funding pressures continue to bite, new research has found. A… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Ofsted WILL now use predecessor school grades in academy statistics Ofsted has decided to factor the grades of academies’ predecessor schools into its official data, it has confirmed. The… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Exclusive School apprenticeship training company ‘not fit for purpose’ says Ofsted A company that runs apprenticeship training for schools has been branded “not fit for purpose” by Ofsted after inspectors… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exam malpractice allegations sealed fate of doomed studio school Accusations of exam malpractice sealed the fate of a doomed studio school, according to “shocking” minutes from its board… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News New data shows 12.5% rise in full secondary schools The proportion of secondary schools that are full or over capacity has risen for the first time in at… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 985 Older