Recruitment and retention

Teaching workforce grows by just 259 as recruitment stalls

Almost as many teachers left the profession as entered it last year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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School funding

Cost of living and teacher pay rises forcing cuts in schools

Schools struggle to get mental health and SEND support for pupils while providing meals and food parcels to hungry…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Next government faces ‘painful’ school funding choices – IfS

Making savings from falling rolls will be ‘easier said than done’, warns think tank

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: Trusts ‘not convinced’ judgments are ‘appropriate or optimal’

CST tells Ofsted’s Big Listen that a separate safeguarding judgment may have ‘merit’, but warns against rushed move to…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Election 2024

School funding top of teachers’ election priority list

‘Every day we hear from school leaders about how they are struggling to manage’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Election 2024

Lib Dems: Primary free school meals an ‘ambition not a funded commitment’

And schools wouldn’t get immediate pupil premium boost under plans to raise FSM earnings threshold

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Big Listen: Ofsted must embrace ‘far-reaching reform’, say leaders

Ofsted ‘still has a long way to go to restore credibility’, union bosses tell watchdog’s consultation

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Exams

Exams: Entries boost in statistics and engineering GCSEs

Further maths and physics A-levels also see increase in entries, but GCSE citizenship and A-level sociology become less popular

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

‘Rebalance’ funding back to poorer schools, says Sutton Trust

Report also calls for extension of pupil premium funding and reinstated cash for tutoring

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Over 330,000 children waiting for mental health support – Lib Dems

Research finds average waits of over a year in some areas as party confirms £620m plan for professionals in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Election delays 2024 academy trust handbook

ESFA chief tells leaders vital guidance will be delayed until after country goes to the polls

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson