News Russell Hobby: Heads should be ‘in the classroom, not the boardroom’ Plans to convert all schools into academies risk creating “boom times for lawyers, auditors and consultants” while teachers struggle,… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Academy chain fights for right to name feeder schools A secondary academy is fighting to give preference to children attending primary schools operated by its trust rather than… Nicky Phillips 8y Nicky Phillips 8y News Headteachers consider industrial action over academies plan Headteachers will consider industrial action over a bid to turn all schools into academies after a union passed a motion opposing… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Morgan to manipulate primary floor standards The number of primary schools which fall below government floor standards this year will be in the hundreds rather… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Nicky Morgan rejects ‘sexist’ question about Nick Gibb role A sexism row has erupted between Nicky Morgan and a headteacher after she was quizzed on the balance of… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Council faces £5.6m bill for free school Hertfordshire county council has been forced to stump up cash for an expensive new free school or face a… Nicky Phillips 8y Nicky Phillips 8y News Academy head pilots super-size classes of 60 Super-size classes of 60 pupils with a single experienced teacher will be piloted next year by one of the… Nicky Phillips 8y Nicky Phillips 8y News Tory shires rebel against plan for academies Conservative councils are opposing the government’s academisation plans, adding their voices to a growing number of rebelling local authorities…. Nicky Phillips 8y Nicky Phillips 8y News Heads can’t condone SATs boycott, but parent fines unlikely Plans by parents to keep pupils away from primary schools on Tuesday in protest against the government’s testing regime… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Heads must decide on May 3 ‘protest’ absences Headteachers must decide whether they will record pupil absences related to parent protests over this summer’s SATs as authorised or not. A petition… Schools Week Reporter 8y Schools Week Reporter 8y News £2m announced for research into marking strategies Schools and academy trusts have been encouraged to apply for funding to run trials into effective marking strategies, as the… Schools Week Reporter 8y Schools Week Reporter 8y News Ditched primary SATs will still set standards Primary schools that carried out a now-defunct key stage 1 test must still provide their results to the government… Nicky Phillips 8y Nicky Phillips 8y Newer 1 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 891 Older