News

Tories disagree over restoring failing academies to councils

Regional schools commissioners should be allowed to rebroker academies back to councils if they can’t find another trust to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ex-Pearson boss Jill Duffy is new OCR chief executive

Jill Duffy, a former senior vice president of Pearson’s schools arm, is the new chief executive of the OCR...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Conference diary: What did we learn from four days with the Conservatives?

After four days of politics but very few policies at the Conservative Party conference, schools are still none the...

Freddie Whittaker
FREDDIE WHITTAKER
CPC, News

Hinds pledges £10m to help teachers deal with bad behaviour

Damian Hinds will announce plans for the first substantial review of government behaviour guidance in over three years, along...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Three in five teachers still required to triple mark, survey reveals

Around three in five teachers are still told by their schools to do frequent triple or “deep” marking, despite...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
CPC, News

The 5 schools policies in Damian Hinds’s Conservative Party conference speech

  Schools will get access to funding to improve behaviour and careers advice, the education secretary will announce today....

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
CPC, News

Former Ofsted inspector warns inspections are ‘not very accurate’

Ofsted inspections are “not very accurate”, according to a former inspector, who has called for a “root and branch”...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
CPC, News

‘It is illegal and we will take action’ – minister’s message to schools on off-rolling

The government will take action against any school or multi-academy trust found to be illegally off-rolling pupils, the children’s...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
CPC, News

Ignore the ‘fibbers’ over London’s school successes, says Hinds

Anyone who says they know why London’s schools have improved over the past two decades is a “fibber”, the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker