Author: Freddie Whittaker

The Department for Education has for the first time published consolidated annual report and accounts for the academies sector. The report relates to the 2015-16 year, and gives an overview of the finances of England’s academies. Here are some of the key findings… 1. 102 academy bosses are paid £150,000+ According to the annual accounts, […]

An academy in Norfolk will have its funding stopped and be re-brokered to a new sponsor if it doesn’t improve its performance, government officials say. The Department for Education has published a termination warning notice issued to the Norfolk Academies trust in relation to Wayland Academy Norfolk. The notice was issued on July 20, but […]

The Department for Education’s first consolidated annual report and accounts for the academies sector has been met with a “qualified” opinion by the National Audit Office. Sir Amyas Morse, the comptroller and auditor general at the NAO, has found that despite improvements on previous years, the DfE was unable to provide “adequate evidence” about the […]

Pupils who have already started work on a computer science task that was suddenly replaced by Edexcel can continue with the old task, rather than having to start from scratch, the exam board has confirmed. Edexcel says the “small number” of schools where pupils have already started the non-exam assessment (NEA) task component of its GCSE […]

Hundreds of teachers, school leaders and support staff will join a mass lobby of parliament today, in a bid to persuade the government to give schools more funding. The National Education Union, which has organised the event with the support of leadership unions ASCL and the NAHT and support staff bodies GMB, UNISON and Unite, estimates more […]

Richard Pennycook, the former chief executive of the Co-operative Group, has been appointed as the Department for Education’s lead non-executive board member. He assumes the £800-a-day role vacated by Sir Paul Marshall over a year ago. Pennycook joins three other former businesspeople and one college principal on the board, which oversees the department’s strategic priorities. As […]

Eleven teachers and teams from across the UK have been named as the winners of the 2017 Pearson Teaching Awards – dubbed the “Oscars of the teaching world”. The winners received their awards, which recognise “outstanding commitment to the profession”, at a ceremony hosted by BBC presenter Naga Munchetty and broadcaster Sean Fletcher this evening. […]