News Toby Young’s flagship academy trust ditches ‘free school’ from its name An academy trust set up by the long-standing free school advocate Toby Young has changed its name, dropping the… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Neil Carmichael takes job at political lobbying firm PLMR Neil Carmichael, the former chair of the education select committee who lost his seat as an MP at the… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Ethnically mixed schools boost integration, but the lunchtime divide still exists Pupils have less “anxiety” towards peers from other ethnic groups when they are taught in mixed schools, a government… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News RSC to take ‘unprecedented’ decision on whether a primary can leave its trust A regional schools commissioner is about to make an “unprecedented” decision on whether a primary school can voluntarily quit… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Free school that omits arts and humanities rated ‘inadequate’ A free school in Newcastle that does not teach humanities, arts or foreign languages has been branded ‘inadequate’ by… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Dropping practicals from science A-level grades gets mixed response, says Ofqual report The reformed science A-levels could be driving higher-ability pupils away from practicals, after mandatory experiments were dropped from the… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Unions: DfE must ‘fully fund’ schools to offer higher pay rises Five teaching unions have urged the government to fund pay rises and reject the recent recommendation by the School… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Ofsted prepares to prosecute four illegal schools which refuse to close Four illegal schools are refusing to comply with government enforcement notices to cease their operation immediately, forcing Ofsted to… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News DfE toughens up rules over academy trust executive pay The rules governing academy chief executives’ pay packets are being toughed up as criticism grows over the sizes of… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Examiners disagree on review marks in 72% of sample scripts Examiners disagreed with each other on the marks they gave nearly three quarters of the time during a recent… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News DfE leans on free school that entered no Year 11s for GCSEs The government has threatened to rebroker a free school that was put in special measures after failing to enter… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Councils open special free schools applications, as more pupils go private Nineteen local authorities have opened applications to run 19 new special free schools, as new figures reveal that more… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y Newer 1 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 979 Older
