Author: Freddie Whittaker

Teachers are giving up running extra-curricular activities and leaving the profession after being denied pay progression because of issues outside their control. A union boss this week also warned of an “increasing groundswell of opinion” against performance-related pay (PRP), as teachers spoke of how being passed over for pay rises demoralised them and their colleagues. […]

Two more university technical colleges have ditched their 14 to 18-year-old intakes to recruit at 11, with warnings “many more” will follow. UTCs in Plymouth and Wolverhampton have been granted permission to open to year 7s from next September. They join The Leigh UTC (pictured) in Dartford, Kent, which opened a feeder school on its […]

Headteachers in Kent have been told their staff may have to sleep in school if Brexit causes traffic chaos across the county. In new guidance Kent County Council said the option of staff sleeping at school “could be considered” if problems on the roads prevented them getting home at the end of the day. We’ve […]

A school rapped by Ofsted over the “well-established” off-rolling of pupils has been warned it could be moved to a different sponsor. Ormiston Academies Trust has been issued with a termination warning notice in respect of Ormiston Denes Academy in Suffolk. Earlier this month, it was revealed that Ofsted had placed the school in special […]

A sponsored academy in one of the country’s poorest neighbourhoods has been named in the top 10 schools in the country for progress 8. Heartlands Academy in Birmingham, which converted as a sponsored academy in 2012, had a progress 8 score of 1.46 this year, placing it sixth in the league tables of all schools […]

The first university technical college to receive an early monitoring visit for its apprenticeship provision has been heavily criticised by Ofsted. London Design and Engineering University Technical College (LDE UTC) was found to be making “insufficient progress” in two out of the three themes assessed, and can now expect to be have its apprentice recruitment […]

Twelve academy trusts have been told to justify high levels of executive pay in their organisations. Eileen Milner, the head of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, has written to the trusts because their accounts show they paid someone more than £150,000 in 2017-18 or multiple people between £100,000 and £150,000. For two of the […]

Two in five pupils in England now enters the full suite of EBacc subjects, new data shows. Provisional key stage 4 performance data published today by the Department for Education shows the EBacc entry rate was 40 per cent this year, up from 38.4 per cent in last year’s provisional results. However, the national picture […]