Author: Freddie Whittaker

Teachers will get any student loan repayments they made in the previous year reimbursed under a pilot announced by Justine Greening aimed at improving recruitment and retention. A briefing document for MPs, seen by Schools Week, sets out further detail on how the reimbursement scheme will work, and where it will operate. The education secretary […]

The education secretary Justine Greening is addressing the Conservative Party conference. Here are the main announcements from her speech… 1. Pilot of student loan forgiveness for teachers, targeted “at the subjects and areas of the country that need them most” 2. Next round of £140 million strategic school improvement fund to focus on reception numeracy […]

The government will pilot a scheme of student loan forgiveness for teachers in shortage subjects working in areas of the country struggling with recruitment. Justine Greening, the education secretary, told the Conservative Party conference today the policy would support schools to “attract and keep the best of the teaching profession”. First mooted in the party’s […]

Ministers were warned the decision to allow a Kent grammar school to build a new site more than eight miles away was at serious risk of losing if put to a judicial review, the former schools minister David Laws has revealed. Laws’s recently-published diaries, chronicling his time as a minister in the coalition, claim lawyers […]

The body that advises the government on teacher pay will next year be given the “flexibility” to recommend an average rise of more than 1 per cent, the government has said. Liz Truss, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has written to Dr Patricia Rice, the chair of the School Teachers Review Body, with an […]

Downing Street has confirmed that Sir Theodore Agnew, the founder of the Inspiration Trust, has been appointed as the new minister for academies, following the departure of Lord Nash. Schools Week revealed earlier today that Agnew was being touted as Nash’s successor as the DfE’s minister in the House of Lords. Now his appointment has been […]

It has been confirmed that Sir Theodore Agnew, chair of the Inspiration Trust academy chain, will replace Lord Nash as academies minister at the Department for Education. Here are some interesting things we know about him…   1. He failed the 11-plus and ‘doesn’t believe in’ grammar schools Agnew attended the independent Beeston Hall school […]

Sir Theodore Agnew, a prominent Conservative donor who founded the Inspiration Trust academy chain, is rumoured to be Lord Nash’s replacement as the government’s academies minister, Schools Week understands. Rumours of Nash’s departure have been circulating for some time, but staff at the Department for Education were told this week that he is to leave, […]