Freddie Whittaker | Schools Week

Schools with poorer intakes prioritised for £45m nurseries cash

DfE invites applications for second phase of programme aimed at converting spare primary classrooms into nursery provision

Schools more disorderly and parents less supportive of behaviour rules

Government’s annual school behaviour survey also finds pupils feel less safe, with more bullying over their race or ethnicity

School staff personal data potentially ‘compromised’ in Intradev cyber attack

Data breach reported by IT firm Intradev may have affected data held by School Central Record, which includes addresses and passport numbers

Holiday activities programme extended for another 3 years

Department will use £600m from its three-year spending review settlement to extend scheme to 2029

Bauckham concerned over switches from triple to double science GCSE

But too early to ‘infer a trend’ as data suggests 10,000 switch from three separate qualifications to double award

GCSEs 2025: Top grades rise again but Ofqual hails ‘continued stability’

Proportion of GCSEs at grade 7 and above up 1.8 per cent on last year and 5.5 per cent on pre-pandemic 2019

Implement uniform branded item cap ‘right now’, Phillipson tells schools

DfE tells schools to ‘immediately’ limit branded items ‘ahead of the new term’

Matt Wrack, general secretary, NASUWT

The new head of the NASUWT has ruled out merging with another union “for now”, insisted his lack of teaching experience won’t hamper him in his role and said action to better engage members is needed after he was elected on a turnout of just 4.7 per cent. Matt Wrack was elected as general secretary […]

Schools ‘over a barrel’ as exam fees rise again

Cost of exams will increase at a greater rate than school funding in 2026, with some provided by AQA going up by over 8%