News

Schools face ‘long slog’ to resolve enduring Covid challenges

'Concerted action' needed as secondaries face reading challenge and primaries battle lack of early development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted names new ‘external reference group’ members

Groups will offer 'independent advice and challenge' as watchdog embarks on wide-ranging reforms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Phillipson meets with unions to plan new ‘partnership’ model

Unions and employers would be asked for perspectives at 'early stage' of policy development

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

‘Inclusion’ a key ‘criterion’ for new Ofsted report cards

Schools that turn away SEND pupils face being 'graded down', says chief inspector

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Gilbert review: Ofsted ‘defensive and complacent’ after head’s death

Former inspector Dame Christine Gilbert's damning review found the headteacher's suicide 'shone a light on a climate of fear...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted headline grades scrapped: What schools need to know

Sub-judgments and intervention in worst-performing schools continue, but double RI rule scrapped

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Headline Ofsted grades scrapped with immediate effect

Schools will continue to be rated on four sub-judgments until new report cards come in next September

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Curriculum

Revealed: 12-member panel to lead Labour curriculum review

Academy trust leaders, a SEND consultant and exams expert among those appointed to work with Professor Becky Francis

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker