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14 April 2026

Author: Alix Robertson

DfE pays £260,000 for a school building to sit empty

The Department for Education shelled out at least £260,200 in rent for an empty office block that previously housed Bournemouth’s troubled Parkfield School. Parkfield set up in Dorset House, in the centre of Bournemouth, in 2013. It was forced to use the building after plans to move to a former national air-traffic-control training centre were […]

New jobs board website offers teachers way out of profession

A jobs website set up to help disaffected teachers find work in other industries has been labelled “an indictment of how bad things have become”. Did Teach is a jobs board website that wants to become a “huge portal” for finding jobs that suit the skillset of teachers seeking alternative work. Modelled on similar services […]

Warning notices issued to 148 private schools

The government has issued warning notices to almost 150 private schools in the last 12 months, with two schools failing to meet standards in all eight categories they are inspected on. The Department for Education published the warning notices for the first time in February, more than two years after a Schools Week campaign first […]

EEF: Weekly maths tutoring boosts progress by three months

Children receiving weekly maths tutoring make three months’ more progress than those without a tutor, according to new research from the Education Endowment Foundation. The study examined the impact of tutoring on the maths attainment of year 6 pupils identified by their teachers as working below their age-expected levels in the subject. The tutoring was […]

Twelve new social mobility commissioners appointed

An academy leader is one of 12 new commissioners appointed today to join the Social Mobility Commission, education secretary Damian Hinds has announced. Approved by the prime minister and the public appointments committee, the team will join chair of the commission Dame Martina Milburn (pictured above), the head of the Prince’s Trust, who took up the […]

Teaching Schools Council chair Andrew Warren is new RSC for the West Midlands

A new regional schools commissioner for the West Midlands has been appointed by the government. Andrew Warren, the chair of the Teaching Schools Council and executive director of Manor Teaching School in Wolverhampton, will take over from the current RSC Christine Quinn, who is retiring at the end of the year. Warren will start the […]

Revealed: The winners of the Nasen Awards 2018

Twelve individuals, schools, and organisations have received awards from National Association for Special Educational Needs (Nasen) as recognition of their work with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The evening was hosted by celebrity guest Vanessa Feltz on October 19 at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel, London, and saw nearly 200 guests come […]

Schools urged to nominate governors and trustees for NGA awards

Schools have just over a month left to nominate governors, trustees and clerks for the National Governance Association’s prestigious Outstanding Governance Awards 2019. The biannual awards ceremony, which recognises and celebrates the best examples of school governance, will take place in May 2019. Nominations are welcome up to December 3, 2018. The NGA awards are […]

DfE launches consultation on content of reformed PE qualifications

The Department for Education has launched a consultation on the subject content of the reformed physical education (PE) GCSE, AS and A-levels. Members of the public can complete an online survey that will allow them to propose any new activities that they believe should be included as part of the qualifications. The activity lists at […]