Unions

Teacher aims to extinguish Wrack’s NASUWT leadership bid

History teacher Luke Akhurst seeks branch nominations in attempt to force a contested election

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

200 schools to get solar panels in £80m green project

Rollout to be completed in 12 months as government predicts savings of £25k per school

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Levelling up

Priority education areas no longer a priority

Priority education investment areas scheme due to end

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

sQuid: Give us back our money, parents tell closed payment provider

Company shut up shop in the UK last Friday. Around 600 schools used it

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Academies

Academy trusts bid for £44m growth cash before scheme axed

More than 660 schools were involved in applications for the final window of the trust capacity and establishment and…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ofsted mulls asking schools to rate inspectors

Watchdog begins work to ‘explore commissioning an independent survey to ask professionals…for their views on Ofsted’s culture’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Digital

Schools could be held to account on digital standards

DfE consults on ‘core digital standards’ and confirms £45m extension of wifi and fibre schemes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

One in six teachers would take 20% less pension for a 10% pay rise

EPI urges government to investigate the possibility of flexibility in the teachers’ pension scheme

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School funding

Funding storm prepares to crash into schools

Leaders cry foul as national insurance grants fall short, and DfE admits schools can’t afford next year’s pay bill

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Attendance

Big jump in SEND pupils missing more school than they attend

Severe absence increases among some of the most vulnerable pupils in the system

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

More schools get positive Ofsted scores after headline grades ditched

First data on inspections without overall judgments shows rises across behaviour, personal development and leadership categories

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Attendance

95%+ attendance almost doubles odds of GCSE pass

DfE research finds missing just 10 days of year 11 halves the odds of getting a grade 5 in…

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer