Ofsted

Labour’s Ofsted report cards: How they could work, and the hurdles

Party has vowed to ‘enhance the inspection regime by replacing a single headline grade with a new report card…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Covid

DfE Covid lockdown party may have gone on past 1am

Staff swiped out of Sanctuary Buildings 34 times after 10am on night of party, 8 times after 1am

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Movers and Shakers

White Horse Federation unveils new CEO

Dr Dan Nicholls, currently deputy CEO at Cabot Learning Federation, will join in September

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Election 2024

Labour manifesto ‘missing’ key school spending details – IfS

Party offers ‘mostly small’ resources for the many pressing ‘challenges’ facing education, says think tank

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Labour manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

Party wants to ‘modernise’ curriculum but ‘build on’ knowledge-rich successes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND: Number of EHCPs soars by highest rate in 6 years

But around half are still not issued by the 20-week legal deadline

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


School places

Primary school first choices hit record high as rolls fall

DfE data shows 93.2% of primary school applicants got their first choice of school for this September

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Election 2024

Green Party manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

Party plans £14bn more education spending, an end to ‘formal’ secondary testing and Ofsted, and wants all academies under…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Teacher supply crisis cuts through to wider public, poll suggests

Labour’s 6,500 teachers pledge is top schools policy among voters, with 4 in 10 saying schools have got worse…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Tory funding pledge could be ‘biggest cut in 50 years’, says IfS

Think tank says Sunak’s per-pupil funding ‘protection’ actually works out as a 6% reduction and would lead to job…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Conservatives manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

13 new policies include protecting school spending in real-terms and mandating phone bans guidance and PE hours

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: Asare, Sameja, Wharf, Baddeley, Van Walwyk, Glackin, Jerrim

Professional actress, keen walker and leader who once worked as a baker, greengrocer, cook and roadie among those with…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter