Author: Freddie Whittaker

The Labour Party has officially launched its manifesto for the 2017 general election today. Many of the policies were already well-known following the leak of a draft document last week. Here is a full list of the policies relevant to schools, with analysis. 1. Reduce class sizes to under 30 for 5, 6 and 7-year-olds Under school […]

Labour has removed draft proposals to re-introduce national pay bargaining for teachers and allow councils to open new schools from its manifesto, the official document released today reveals. The schools section of the manifesto, launched this morning by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, does not include an earlier pledge to bring back national pay bargaining. The […]

The Labour Party’s official manifesto for the 2017 general election has officially been launched this morning at Bradford University. You can read all the nerdy details in our analysis here. Schools policies in the Labour manifesto 1. Reduce class sizes to less than 30 for 5, 6 and 7-year-olds 2. Introduce free school meals for […]

The Green Party today launched its education manifesto outside a school facing closure on the Isle of Wight in a bid to highlight issue with the academies and free school programme. Sandown Bay Academy, operated by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), faces being merged with another school on the island after its pupil numbers halved in five years. […]

With less than four weeks until the general election, Schools Week exclusively reveals the constituencies that face having the worst-funded schools under the government’s new national funding formula Conservative safe seats, including several represented by senior party members, will be the worst-off under the government’s proposed new national schools funding formula. Exclusive analysis of government […]

Labour is considering the re-introduction of national pay bargaining powers for teachers for the first time in 26 years, Schools Week has learned. The proposal, which also includes the re-introduction of a negotiating body for school support staff, is included in the schools policy section of a draft copy of the Labour Party’s manifesto, which also sets out plans to […]

The Liberal Democrats will spend almost £7 billion protecting school and college funding, the pupil premium and will invest in continuing professional development for teachers if they win the general election, the party has announced. Protection for schools’ per-pupil funding against currently unfunded pressures, at a cost of £3.3 billion, is included in the party’s […]