News DfE hires grammar school critic as head of strategy and social mobility The Department for Education has appointed Emran Mian, the director of the Social Market Foundation think tank and a… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Daventry becomes sixth UTC to announce closure after recruitment problems Low student numbers will lead to closure of another University Technical College, the sixth to close or announce closure… Schools Week Reporter 9y Schools Week Reporter 9y News Bright Tribe walks away from struggling schools in north A trust has pulled out of sponsoring two struggling schools in the north of England – despite being given… John Dickens 9y John Dickens 9y News Teacher pay: 1 per cent rise will cost schools £250m, warns government An increase in teachers’ pay of just 1 per cent would cost schools an additional £250 million next year,… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Minister to ‘accelerate’ proposals for changes to sex education Ministers have suggested that sex and relationships education could be made statutory in schools through upcoming legislation due early… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News PISA 2015: Achievement gap between top and bottom pupils equivalent to 8 years’ schooling The gap in achievement between 15-year-old pupils in England in key subjects is one of the largest and most… Jess Staufenberg 9y Jess Staufenberg 9y News PISA 2015: No improvement for a decade … and 10 other oddities English pupils have not improved their PISA scores for almost the last decade, according to an international data set… Jess Staufenberg 9y Jess Staufenberg 9y News RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands Christine Quinn is the newest regional schools commissioner, filling the shoes of Pank Patel who presided over significant growth… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News RSC Guide: Janet Renou, the North of England When Janet Renou gave her first interview to Schools Week in 2014, just 13 per cent of schools in… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Children’s commissioner launches ‘growing up north’ — a project to collect data on the northern education gap The children’s commissioner Anne Longfield will lead a project aimed at addressing educational inequality in the north of England… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Promote British values and register home-schooled pupils, Casey review recommends A landmark report which was supposed to provide a ‘major review’ of the impact of migration on schools has made… Freddie Whittaker 9y Freddie Whittaker 9y News Ofsted sticks school in special measures, criticising ‘messy’ talks over academy status A school whose academy conversion hit the buffers over its controversial PFI deal has been put in special measures…. John Dickens 9y John Dickens 9y Newer 1 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 977 Older