News Food, fraud and going abroad: What’s on Ofsted’s £1m credit card bill? Ofsted has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on meals in restaurants, nights in hotels, overseas travel and in… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Dorset pupil referral units are turning away excluded pupils Pupil referral units in Dorset are turning away some excluded pupils after the local authority ran out of money… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News DfE property company considers onsite housing for teachers The government-backed company tasked with buying sites for new schools is looking at providing housing for teachers in new… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News ‘Bill of rights’ for excluded pupils must not be tick-box exercise Leading figures from the special educational needs community have backed calls for a “bill of rights” to protect pupils… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Don’t boycott SATs, heads tell parents Headteachers have warned parents not to take part in a planned boycott of this year’s SATs. The campaign group… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y 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 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y 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 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y 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 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y 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 8y Alix Robertson 8y 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 8y Alix Robertson 8y 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 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y 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 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Newer 1 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 1,007 Older