News Councils run crisis communications classes for schools as trusts up their PR focus Councils are running classes for school managers on how to deal with the media in a crisis, while academy… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Errors in exam papers tripled this year, Ofqual report reveals The number of ‘material errors’ in the design of A level and GCSE exam papers has more than tripled… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive Lodgers move into disused Black Country UTC Young professionals are living in a disused Walsall university technical college site, which is not the only failed college… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Councils must estimate free school pupil numbers under funding change Local authorities will now have to estimate how many pupils move to certain free schools opening in their area… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Academy trusts told to avoid isolated academies The government has issued its firmest statement yet that trusts should avoid running geographically isolated schools, raising serious questions… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Roger Taylor appointed as new chair of exams regulator Ofqual Former journalist and Careers and Enterprise Company adviser Roger Taylor will replace Amanda Spielman as the chair of the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust has ‘let down pupils’ One of England’s largest multi-academy trusts has been warned it has “let down pupils over a number of years”… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive Councils face £600m blackhole in special needs funding More than half a billion pounds must be found by 2025 to top up an already unsustainable special needs… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Half of new special free schools specialise in autism Autism-specific schools make up almost half of all special needs free schools. The “more complex” requirements of autistic pupils… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Schools struggle as autism diagnoses rise 25 per cent Schools are “struggling” to provide for autistic pupils following a 25 per cent increase in autism diagnoses in the… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Christmas appeal: literacy charity Hackney Pirates needs help to get shipshape again Schools Week is making a Christmas appeal for our readers to help an education charity that was left “shipwrecked”… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive DfE had agreement to share pupil nationality data with Home Office The Department for Education (DfE) did have an agreement in place to share pupil nationality data with the Home… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y Newer 1 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 972 Older
