News

Analysis: Expanding grammar schools will still ‘lag behind’ in support for poorer pupils

Plans by 16 grammar schools to open up access to poorer pupils in exchange for a share of an...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Eight top private schools dominate Oxbridge admissions

Eight top schools, including Eton, Westminster and St Paul’s School for boys, had the same number of pupils accepted...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Three in ten LA-maintained secondaries now in deficit, DfE data shows

More than 30 per cent of local authority-maintained secondary schools are now in deficit, new data from the Department...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

League tables to score schools on how many pupils take up higher apprenticeships

The government will start including data on the number of pupils schools send on to higher-level apprenticeships in school...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Academy trusts are becoming more risk-averse, says former schools commissioner

Academy trusts have become more risk-averse as the government has increased its auditing of their work, the former national...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Great academy sponsors can be transformational. Here’s how we can find more of them

The weakest schools will continue to fail unless we have MATs and leaders with the moral purpose ready to...

Freddie Whittaker
SIR DAVID CARTER
News

ICO warns schools after head fined for unlawfully obtaining pupils’ personal data

School leaders have been warned they will face action if they abuse their position of trust following the successful...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted to introduce new MAT ‘summary evaluations’ this month

A new inspection regime for multi-academy trusts will be introduced this month, Ofsted has revealed. In its annual report,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted annual report reveals plight of ‘stuck schools’

One in ten secondary schools in the north east, Yorkshire and the Humber and the east midlands have been “stuck”...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker