Phillipson ‘open’ to academies returning to council oversight Education secretary also considering plans for LAs to open new schools again
Educating Greater Manchester head Drew Povey banned from teaching Misconduct panel finds former leader ‘failed to prevent’ off-rolling and to protect pupils from the ‘risk of potential harm’
Ofsted Academy publishes first inspector training materials Six inspector training videos uploaded to free-to-access platform as watchdog aims for greater transparency
‘Tough choices’ behind academy grant cut, and 5 other findings from education questions Education secretary Bridget Phillipson and her ministers faced their second bout of questions in Parliament
Laura Trott appointed shadow education secretary MP for Sevenoaks and former chief secretary to the Treasury tapped by Kemi Badenoch to lead Conservative education team
Revealed: 36 leaders to form CST policy advisory group New panel will help ‘shape the policy landscape for school trusts across England’
We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development CST’s new policy advisory group will provide ‘critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for school trusts’, writes Steve Rollett
Academy conversion grant scrapped and ‘no plans’ for further trust capacity fund cash Academies body says decisions will make it ‘much more difficult’ for trusts to support schools in need and will leave smaller primaries ‘vulnerable’
Budget 2024: Back to the future on school spending Per-pupil funding will return to 2010 levels, but pressures on schools mean the future won’t look that different from the recent past, writes Luke Sibieta