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
SEND

Councils face legal challenge over SEND safety valve deals

The three potential judicial reviews will heap more pressure on a key government policy

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
RAAC

RAAC school faces £2m hit after pupils go elsewhere

Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust is not the only MAT complaining of drops in numbers at RAAC-affected schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Exams

T-level drop-outs switch to courses due for axe

90% of T-level drop-outs who switched to other technical courses went on to qualifications due to be defunded

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

ASCL: Base Ofsted report cards on ‘slim set of statutory standards’

The heads’ union sets out key principles of how Labour’s proposed report card should work if they win next…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey