News

DfE seeks teacher pay body’s views on 9-day fortnights and staggered starts

Views sought on areas where teachers' pay and conditions 'may pose a barrier to flexible working'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

DfE: 2.8% teacher pay rise ‘would be appropriate’ for 2025-26

Schools told they will need to find 'efficiencies' to 'supplement' extra cash allocated at the budget

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

Competition watchdog opens ‘suspected bid-rigging’ probe into school repair contracts

CMA says it has 'reason to suspect' companies 'illegally colluded to rig bids to secure contracts'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Schools urged to register defibrillators as half ‘invisible’ to ambulance crews

Leaders urged to take five minutes to register their life-saving device on a national database

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Artificial Intelligence

Ofsted to review the use of AI in schools

DfE commissions watchdog to examine how schools use AI to 'support teaching and learning' and manage admin

Freddie Whittaker
Lydia Chantler‑Hicks and Freddie Whittaker
News

‘Double funding’ likely needed during transition to new SEND system, says IFS

IFS warns 'something has to change' to avoid 'absurd' council deficits of £8 billion by 2027

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Movers and Shakers, Ofqual

Dr Susan Tranter appointed Ofqual chair

Academy trust CEO takes over from interim chair Frances Wadsworth

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

Capital cost-cutters save £8m – but what next?

The future of the capital advisers’ programme looks in doubt

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Starmer wants 75% of children ‘school-ready’ by 2028

Target of three in four reception pupils at a 'good' level of development is one of six key 'milestones'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker