Politics

Labour conference 2024: Bridget Phillipson’s speech in full

The education secretary addressed party members at their annual gathering in Liverpool

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Phillipson wants school-based nurseries open next year under £15m capital scheme

Up to 300 primary schools will be handed funding in the spring to convert empty classrooms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Free school meals

Minister ‘keen to learn’ from Khan’s free school meals policy

Stephen Morgan reveals 'live conversation' in government over potential future 'interventions'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Leaders fear Ofsted ‘running away’ with report card design

Unions call for DfE to take charge amid fears the watchdog is 'reforming itself'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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