News SPEED-READ: Our 6-point guide to the National Funding Formula consultation Education secretary Nicky Morgan has launched the first of two consultations that will shape an “historic” national funding formula…. Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Schools urged to publish salary gap to wipe out gender bias Schools are being urged to pledge to eradicate gender bias and support more women into headship – including by… John Dickens 10y John Dickens 10y News Value for money of teacher training schemes questioned by MPs Concerns about the value for money of government initiatives to recruit teachers have been aired by MPs. The Public… Sophie Scott 10y Sophie Scott 10y News UTCs should be in multi-academy trusts to make them ‘stronger’, minister Nick Boles claims University Technical Colleges (UTCs) should function as part of multi-academy trusts to make them “stronger”, education minister Nick Boles… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News 300 schools sit national reference tests More than 14,000 year 11 pupils will sit pilot tests for the national reference tests (NRTs) from Monday. Ofqual… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News DfE fails to clawback cash from academy chains with zero schools Only a handful of the academy trusts paid at least £850,000 to take over new schools paid back any… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Nicky Morgan launches consultation on national fair funding formula for schools School funding will be delivered via a national funding formula from 2017, the terms of which will be established… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Nicky Morgan to launch ‘flexible jobs website’ for women teachers A leadership coaching scheme which will see women in schools encouraged to mentor others and a website to promote… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Huge sixth form classes will affect A level results, heads warn A “significant funding dip” is forcing schools to increase sixth form class sizes, with one school reporting 38 pupils… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Government ‘exploring’ national teacher vacancies website plan The government is considering setting up a national teacher vacancies website in response to complaints by schools over the… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News School demands detailed holiday plans from parents to tackle extremism and radicalisation A head whose school demands detailed holiday plans from parents requesting term-time leave has spoken of the need to… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Teaching Leaders programme to double in size The government is more than doubling its support for a social enterprise offering professional development to middle leaders in… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y Newer 1 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 871 872 873 874 1,001 Older