Academies

Leaders leave after trust uncovered £379k spend on linked supply agency

Three senior staff leave academy trust after investigators found 'undisclosed conflict of interest'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

How a trust turned around an island school

Bosses of the Isles of Scilly's only school tell how they turned around an academy split across four sites...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Schools demand national campaign against abusive parents

More than a third of school staff report receiving verbal abuse from parents

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment

Slashing maths bursary in retention pilot lost scores of teachers

While early career payments improved retention, lower initial payment in DfE scheme hit recruitment more

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

EYFS results improve, but some pupils far behind

DfE says improvement may show Covid recovery or familiarity with new assessments - but gender gap widens

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Leaders vow to shun minimum service levels for schools

But DfE refuses to say whether schools will face action for failing to issue work notices to striking staff

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Minimum service level proposals: Everything schools need to know

It will be left up to heads to decide 'appropriate' staffing levels and down to schools and trusts to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

DfE wants 3 in 4 pupils in during strikes, leaked documents reveal

Ministers accused of acting in 'bad faith' and deliberately 'collapsing' minimum service level talks with unions

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

DfE south west regional director leaves for council job

Hannah Woodhouse to depart the DfE after seven years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker