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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Jess Staufenberg
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
Jess Staufenberg
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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Freddie Whittaker


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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Freddie Whittaker
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
John Dickens
News

Schools struggle with rise in special provision requests

The Exams Officers’ Association (EOA) is pushing for a consultation with Ofqual to review exam access for students with…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Teachers ‘need more incentives’ to become examiners

An awards scheme for examiners should be created to entice more teachers to take on the “unattractive” job, a…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

GCSE English and maths requirement blamed for ‘cliff-edge drop’ in early years recruitment

The low number of pupils achieving a GCSE in English and maths has been blamed for a recruitment crisis…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg