Author: Billy Camden

The Department for Education (DfE) has this morning put out figures on the number of admissions appeals for the last academic year (2015-16). The department has claimed that most of the data for this year is not comparable to others because of the new school census collection, which now includes verification of each school type – […]

The burgeoning private tuition market, now worth up to £2 billion a year, is stretching the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils, says the Sutton Trust. In its Shadow Schooling report, out on Thursday, the trust polled more than 1,500 teachers to show that more than four of ten in the state sector have […]

The former schools minister David Laws and ex-Ofsted chair Sally Morgan are among 16 new appointments to the New Schools Network’s advisory council. Laws, who served as schools minister from 2012 to 2015 and is currently the executive chair of the Education Policy Institute, and Morgan, who served as chair of Ofsted from 2011 to 2014 and now an […]

The new national reference tests will go-ahead and be taken for the first time by roughly 18,000 students in February and March next year, Ofqual has confirmed. First piloted in March this year, the tests involve a sample of Year 11 students sitting the exams each year in order to monitor, over time, how well […]

Thousands of small schools are struggling to meet the cost of providing free school meals, according to a leaked government report previously kept hidden by the Department for Education. And a decision taken earlier this year to end an annual £2,300 subsidy to small infant schools will have exacerbated the problem even further. Infant schools are currently […]