Author: Freddie Whittaker

The exams watchdog Ofqual is struggling to link school exam results to teaching quality, its chief regulator has admitted. Sally Collier told a group of politicians and academics this morning that she was “finding it very difficult” to say to what extent rises and falls in GCSE and A level results were down to better […]

Schools should be legally required to tackle sexual harassment and sexual violence and inspected on their effectiveness in this area, an influential group of MPs has said. The House of Commons women and equalities committee has demanded in a report published today that the government include in its forthcoming ‘education for all bill’ a statutory responsibility […]

The true extent of the opposition faced by the government over its plans to allow new grammar schools to open has been revealed as Conservative MPs voiced their fears in Parliament, with the Scottish National Party joining Labour in vowing to fight the policy “tooth and nail”. At least 12 MPs from the government benches have today indicated their potential opposition […]

The government’s green paper on plans for new grammar schools and other school reforms will be laid before Parliament this afternoon. The Department for Education has confirmed that Justine Greening, the education secretary, will address MPs in the House of Commons at 3.30pm to kick off a consultation on the proposals, which were set out by […]

The full details of Theresa May’s plan for new grammar schools will be “very persuasive” for Conservative opponents of the policy, the schools minister Nick Gibb has claimed. Gibb told the ResearchED conference in north London this morning that the green paper consultation document outlining the details of the reforms would be released on Monday. School leaders […]

Opposition to Theresa May’s planned grammar schools is already growing, with a petition already gathering signatures as Conservative MPs are preparing to work with Labour to vote against their own government. A petition set up by the Fair Education Alliance is opened immediately after the prime minister  detailed her plan for selective school reforms in […]

The government will spend £50 million a year on the expansion of existing grammar schools, Theresa May has announced. The prime minister confirmed in a speech this morning that the money would be spent on helping good and outstanding selective schools to grow, and would kick-start a raft of reforms which could eventually see new grammar […]

An “ambitious package of education reforms” including new grammar schools and measures to force top universities to sponsor schools will help make the country “a true meritocracy”, the prime minister will claim this morning. In a major speech, Theresa May will launch the new government’s green paper, including plans to scrap the “arbitrary rule” which […]