News INVESTIGATION: Only 1 in 3 new schools has sprinklers – and ‘expectation’ to fit them due to be removed from DfE policy The proportion of new schools being built with fire-preventing sprinklers has halved to just 35 per cent since 2010,… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive Teacher interventions in pupil fights cost thousands in compensation Teachers injured while breaking up fights between pupils are claiming tens of thousands of pounds each in compensation –… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Racial hate crimes in schools surge in wake of Brexit Schools across the country have experienced a surge in racial hate crimes in the aftermath of Brexit, new figures… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News More than half of MPs educated in state comprehensives More than half of the country’s MPs are comprehensively-educated for the first time, in a shift academics say is… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Meet the teachers elected as MPs A new generation of teachers-turned-MPs have vowed to fight school funding cuts after an election which saw education issues… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Education graduates earn more than lawyers, figures show School career advisors are being asked to talk up the earning potential of teaching after new government figures suggested… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Former DfE boss knighted and school leaders recognised in Queen’s birthday honours Chris Wormald, the former Department for Education boss once criticised for letting his staff play with party hats in… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Free school championed by Gibb rated outstanding across the board A free school championed by schools minister Nick Gibb, and whose founder has previously said she would ban Ofsted,… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Purdah is over, but it has paralysed DfE for 6 months in 2 years The government has been affected by pre-election rules preventing civil servants from talking to the press for more than… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Government urged to show it ‘has teeth’ as academy scandals stack up The government has been urged to show it has the “teeth” to deal with people implicated in major academy… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News EEF: New trials include ban on grading pupils’ work Four new trials have won grant funding from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), including a trial to test whether… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News ‘Widening gap’ between London and rest of country in language GCSEs, warns report A widening gap is emerging in the take-up of language GCSEs between pupils in London and the rest of… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y Newer 1 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 973 Older
