News Compulsory Saturday lessons could ‘burn out’ teachers, union warns A school has made it compulsory for some pupils to come in on Saturdays to drive up GCSE results… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Selective sixth form forced to scrap grades threshold after joining trust A celebrated sixth form with top A-level results has been forced to stop kicking pupils out for low grades… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Government tsar calls energy drinks ‘child protection issue’ There are fresh moves afoot to make energy drinks illegal for anyone under 16, as one school resorts to… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Holiday hunger: Government promises research and pilot projects The government will not support a draft law to force councils to provide free meals and activities for poor… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Second wave of ‘opportunity area’ plans published: What do schools need to know? The education secretary Damian Hinds has released delivery plans for the government’s next six “opportunity areas”, after publishing the… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News DfE let two free schools rack up £2 million debts over pupil numbers Two free schools racked up almost £2 million in debt after the Department for Education repeatedly allowed them to… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News MPs urged to back holiday hunger bill The headteachers’ union NAHT wants MPs to back a draft law that would force councils to provide meals and… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Ipswich gets new research school as Damian Hinds sets out opportunity area plans A new research school will be founded in Ipswich, the education secretary will announce today. In his first major… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive Investigation: Apprenticeship company told schools how to exploit tax loopholes A schools apprenticeship and graduate recruitment agency stands accused of advising schools how to become “better off’ by exploiting… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Exclusive Revealed: Low pupil numbers forced nearly every UTC to hand funding back Almost all university technical colleges missed their recruitment targets and were overpaid by the government last year, leaving them… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Unions demand ‘significant’ pay rise for teachers and heads A coalition of teaching unions has called for an urgent review of teachers and leaders’ pay, demanding a “cost… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Public accounts committee chair slams ‘exorbitantly expensive’ PFI contracts The chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee Meg Hillier has spoken out against costly private finance initiative contracts… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y Newer 1 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 1,003 Older
