News

Ministers mull putting health services in spare primary classrooms

Education secretary says government is exploring how to use the school estate for ‘wider family services’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Defence review calls for cadet expansion – despite DfE funding cut

Call from the Ministry of Defence comes less than a year after the DfE scrapped its £1.1m contribution to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Policy

Headteacher appointed as new DfE ‘school leader adviser’

Maintained school headteacher Andrew O’Neill to deliver ‘frontline expertise directly into the heart of policy-making’, government says

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Teacher strikes

Striking teachers tell trust to extend lunch break instead of lessons

Teachers across 14 Outwood Grange trust schools to strike this week over plans to extend day past 2.30pm

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Movers and Shakers

MAT names inclusion director as new CEO

Incoming Anthem Schools Trust boss set to leave one of England’s biggest MATs for new role

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

More schools miss out as ‘lottery’ repair grants fall again

Just 35 per cent of schools that applied for condition improvement funding get cash

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


SEND

DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding

Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Child poverty: Schools ‘have no time’ to wait for strategy

Unions urge government not to ‘kick the can down the road’ amid reports of delays to flagship Labour strategy

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Biggest-ever academy trust merger given minister greenlight

Catholic mega MAT set to become second biggest in England as bosses eye September launch

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Education cuts would risk school budgets, warns IFS

Analysis ‘will make harrowing reading for school and college leaders already faced with intense pressures on their budgets’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Solutions

Cinema trips and summer schools boost attendance 

We look at a school bucking the national trend of rising absences to learn how they’re doing it

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Loss of £80m low-carbon skills fund could stop schools going green

Cash-strapped schools will be unable to afford bids for a wider decarbonisation scheme, consultants warn

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson