The Legal Leader

Why a small funding rule update is another leash on academy freedoms

Guidance on novel, contentious and repercussive (NCR) transactions point to a requirement to ask the Department for Education first,...

Freddie Whittaker
Philip Wood
Exams

Skills white paper to confirm V-levels and GCSE re-sit ‘stepping stones’

New vocational courses will be the size of an A-level and replace existing alternatives to T-levels

Freddie Whittaker
Anviksha Patel
School buildings

End of PFI contracts ‘could cost schools £4bn’

Experts warn the 'scale is huge and stakes are very high' as scores of contracts due to end

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

I’ve given teaching my all – now I’m told I may not belong in Britain

US-born teacher Jasmine Lane reflects on what new immigration rules and rhetoric mean for the educators Britain can least...

Freddie Whittaker
Jasmine Lane
Opinion

How Labour can turn The Wasted Years into The Ambitious Years

Key stage 3 provision has improved but is too often used as a rehearsal for GCSEs, rather than being...

Freddie Whittaker
Mary Myatt
Opinion

AI can be part of the solution to schools’ mentor capacity crisis

With a school using AI coaching, Professor Haili Hughes reveals whether others should follow suit

Freddie Whittaker
Professor Haili Hughes
Exams

Cyber-attacks, exam fees and digital vision…meet the new head of Cambridge OCR

Myles McGinley talks to Schools Week about his hopes for the future of curriculum and assessment

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define...

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton
Behaviour

Schools white paper will ‘focus on setting expectations on behaviour’

Education secretary is concerned about children vulnerable to 'darker forces' online when they disengage from school

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Ruth Lucas