Academies Investigation Academy commissioner costs soar by 40% after restructure Teams now cost more than £3,000 for each of England’s academies Jack Dyson 1y Jack Dyson 1y MATs Exclusive SchoolsCompany: £900k, three years … and still no final claims Landmark academy court case criticised over ‘scandalous’ costs and delays Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Exams Progress 8 pause: Heads call for wider review But some heads have warned the sector could creep back to GCSE pass grades being the accountability ‘king’ Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Exams No school progress measure for next two years The Department for Education had explored alternative options, but concluded there is ‘no replacement’ for progress 8 measure Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Climate change Calls for review of ‘undervalued’ climate education A third of secondary teachers did not believe they spent enough time teaching about climate change Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y SEND NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role SEND leaders are playing a ‘crucial role’ in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Ofsted Ofsted criticises ‘limited and poor quality’ RE lessons 5 key findings from Ofsted’s religious education subject report Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Funding CST outlines 4 reforms for ‘fairer’ school funding Academy body calls for SEND cash through the national funding formula, a policy premium and new private finance building… Jack Dyson 1y Jack Dyson 1y SATs Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y High Court Michaela school wins High Court battle over prayer ban Policy did not ‘interfere’ with a Muslim pupil’s religious freedoms because she had ‘chosen the school knowing its strict… Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Academies Big MATs have highest teacher turnover, EPI finds Large trusts have highest levels of teacher turnover and are better-off, report reveals Jack Dyson 1y Jack Dyson 1y Governance Sir Paul Marshall steps down from Ark Schools board Media mogul was accused of liking and sharing far-right extremist posts and conspiracy theories on social media Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Newer 1 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 970 Older
