Teacher pay

Keegan claims teachers are among ‘top 10% of earners’

Education secretary incorrectly claims teacher pay is 'a lot higher' than average, and inflates the average head's salary by...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

To parents, thriving children are more important than the academies debate

'Most of the parents we spoke to were not only uninterested, but frankly unaware of what academisation means'

Freddie Whittaker
Meg Price
Politics

Unions get green-light to challenge ‘strike-breaking’ law in court

Judicial reviews brought by the TUC, NASUWT and Unison will be heard in March

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Features

Profile: Steve Mastin, history teacher and co-founder, Opening Worlds

Steve Mastin doesn’t want to talk about politics. That may come as a bit of surprise if you read...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Teacher training: DfE to scrap school direct fee-funded route

Ministers are also considering rolling the school direct salaried route into their postgrad teaching apprenticeship

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Free school meals change could add thousands to schools’ incomes

Leaders urged to help children previously ineligible due to their parents' immigration status register for support

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted and DfE criticised over lack of data on child sexual abuse

MP fears lack of records will mean 'important patterns and opportunities to introduce improved safeguarding' being missed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Schools bill, strikes and selection: 8 things we learned from Keegan’s first education committee

The education secretary took questions from MPs this morning

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE teacher jobs board to copy vacancies from trust websites

Free government service working with academy trusts to allow vacancies to be uploaded in bulk

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker