Opinion

A-level decoupling: who’s going to benefit?

A-level reform will leave sixth-form students facing increasingly difficult curriculum decisions and decreased attainment. Change is an inevitability that...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Features

Ros McMullen, chief executive, LEAF

Sitting across from Ros McMullen, it is hard to imagine the headteacher of one of the most successful turnaround...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

How can schools strengthen mental health for all pupils?

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) code of practice will give schools the impetus to review their approaches...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

Creating a toolkit to help raise teaching standards

UK heads joined school leaders from around the world in Washington to explore ways of developing professional learning and...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Government launch ‘mortgage’ offer for academies

Academies will for the first time be able to borrow government cash, “like a mortgage”, in a bid to...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Free school sixth-form offer £500 recruitment ‘incentive’ to pupils

High-achieving students in Doncaster are being offered £500 in a bid to lure them to a new free school...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Regional school commissioners begin to flex their muscles

A local authority’s choice of school sponsor has been vetoed, in a first sign of the government’s new regional...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

College of Teaching to have three year ‘incubation’

It will take three years for a proposed College of Teaching to get up to full capacity after its...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Double-funded academy say there will be ‘no difficulties’ in repaying

A free school in south London that opened with 17 pupils has said it will have no problem paying...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden