School Leadership

‘Heads have felt disrespected, but now it’s time for solutions’

The new leaders of the Headteachers’ Roundtable speak to Schools Week about how the sector feels it has been...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Curriculum review

‘If we put things in we have to take things out’, says curriculum review chair

Professor Becky Francis acknowledges complaints of a 'very overstuffed curriculum'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Solutions

Could ‘teacher in residence’ secondments help attract ‘gen Z’?

Study finds those entering the workforce today don't want 'linear' careers and crave a good work-life balance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Children’s commissioner orders compulsory survey of schools

Dame Rachel de Souza uses statutory powers to ask schools about their provision and barriers to supporting pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Gamekeeper turns poacher as Hayes takes committee chair

Former shadow children's minister talks Ofsted, recruitment and retention, funding and holding her former colleagues to account

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Revealed: The three candidates for education committee chair

Two former children's minister and disability rights campaigner compete for influential job

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools face ‘long slog’ to resolve enduring Covid challenges

'Concerted action' needed as secondaries face reading challenge and primaries battle lack of early development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted names new ‘external reference group’ members

Groups will offer 'independent advice and challenge' as watchdog embarks on wide-ranging reforms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker