News Exclusive Academy bosses increasingly use ‘GAG pooling’ to take control of funds Multi-academy trusts are increasingly using new freedoms to pool their schools’ budgets into one central pot before dishing out… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Exclusive PISA tests for 5-year-olds – organiser defends pilot amid pupil pressure fears Organisers of the new computer-based PISA tests the UK is to pilot for five-year-olds have hotly denied claims they… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Investigation: Government delay on consultations totals over EIGHT years As schools close for the summer break, the government has yet to respond to nine consultations on new reforms… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Two organisations named to deliver government’s new ‘school leader’ qualifications The government is to launch revamped leadership qualifications for school leaders in September using two organisations incorporating over 100… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive Key academies spending document delayed… AGAIN The Department for Education’s promised first key transparency report into academy finances will be published three months late, despite… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Wilshaw’s £15k bonus, and 6 more Ofsted annual report findings Sir Michael Wilshaw was awarded a bonus of at least £15,000 in his final year as chief inspector, despite… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Bids sought for £10m foreign teacher recruitment drive The government plans to spend up to £10 million recruiting and training hundreds of foreign physics, maths and languages… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive DfE amends grammar schools research after complaint to stats watchdog The government has been forced to backtrack on claims it made about the popularity of grammar schools following a… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Two schools fail cladding fire safety tests Two schools in London have been found to have combustible cladding during tests carried out by the government following… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Secondary school pupil numbers to rise by a fifth as population bulge hits A population bulge is expected to send pupil numbers in secondary schools soaring by 19 per cent over the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Ofsted misses short inspections target for second year running Ofsted has missed its target for the number of short inspections it carries out for the second year running… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News The 6 key policy recommendations from the Social Market Foundation’s inequality study The Social Market Foundation has today published the results of its Commission on Inequality in Education. You can read… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y Newer 1 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 1,011 Older