News Teachers need proper sex education training, warn experts External speakers should not be used as substitutes for trained teachers under plans to make sex and relationships education… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Teacher workload crisis threatens examiner recruitment Teacher workload and reforms to GCSEs and A-levels are affecting examiner recruitment. Union officials, school leaders and examiners have… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News REVEALED: The local authorities with the biggest staffing cuts Secondary schools have lost more than 15,000 members of staff over the last three years, but teacher-to-pupil ratios have… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Ofsted allows newly-trained staff to lead short inspections Ofsted will allow 25 junior inspectors who signed up to a fast-track training programme with a cash incentive to… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Slight fall in school absence fines in wake of Platt court case Parents fined for their children’s unauthorised absence fell a little last year, but the figures did not change as… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Exclusive United Learning and Ark in north-London turf war Two of the country’s leading academy trusts have clashed over plans for an “unneeded” free school in north London…. Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Floreat Brentford Primary free school to close The sponsor of Floreat Brentford Primary School, a free school in west London, has announced plans to close the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Yeovil’s St Michael’s Academy hit with financial notice to improve A junior school in Somerset has been hit with a financial notice to improve from the government after it… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Campaigner wants school absence contact procedures changed Schools should be forced to contact multiple family members in the event of unexpected pupil absences, according to a… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive Sweet-talking the government worth six figures to struggling trusts Some academy trusts are getting extra money simply because of their “powers of persuasion” while others struggle with their… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Girls school holds off negative Ofsted report with legal threats A Kent school that managed to suppress an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report for eight months by threatening legal action has… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Lack of understanding hampers heads’ ability to help pupils with mental health School leaders’ lack of understanding of counselling and psychotherapy is making it difficult for them to commission mental health… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y Newer 1 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 1,014 Older