Author: Freddie Whittaker

SATs tests for 7-year-olds are to be scrapped, but not for at least six years, and it all hinges on controversial new baseline tests for reception children. Justine Greening has this week confirmed plans to make key stage 1 SATs non-compulsory by 2023 and instead introduce a new baseline test for reception children. Greening said […]

Key stage 1 SATs will be scrapped from 2023, Justine Greening has confirmed. In her response to the government’s consultation on primary testing, the education secretary said she would proceed with proposals to make the tests sat by 7-year-olds non-statutory for schools. The proposal was first outlined in March, when Greening announced she was setting […]

The government’s long-awaited national funding formula will include a minimum per-pupil funding amount for both primary and secondary schools, Justine Greening has announced today. The education secretary says primary schools will get at least £3,500 for every pupil on their roll from 2019-20, an extension of the £4,800 per-pupil funding guarantee for secondary schools that […]

Two new directors have been appointed at the Durand Academy Trust following the resignation of controversial former headteacher Sir Greg Martin. Company records show Rebecca Pickard, the school’s acting headteacher, and Harriet Russell, a staff governor at the school, joined the trust board earlier this month. Pickard is a former assistant headteacher at Durand, and […]

The education secretary Justine Greening will be brought before MPs next month to answer questions about school funding, changes to GCSEs and educational outcomes for poorer children, the new education select committee has announced. MPs will also grill Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman and Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier “in the coming weeks”. The new […]

Workload is the “most important factor” for teachers leaving the profession, with government initiatives and policy changes not far behind, research by the Department for Education has found. The government has published a wide-ranging analysis of teacher supply, which looks into problems at school and teacher level. As part of the research, the DfE surveyed 1,023 […]

Teaching unions have once again demanded that the government remove the cap on all public sector pay rises, after it was lifted for police and prison officers. The government today announced that the two professions will receive rises above the one-per-cent limit this year, and suggested that restrictions on other sectors’ pay could be lifted […]

The full membership of the House of Commons education committee has been confirmed. Five Conservative MPs, five Labour MPs and one Scottish National Party MP will serve under the chairship of Robert Halfon, the former skills minister. The committee holds the government and its regulators, like Ofsted and Ofqual, to account on policy, administration and […]