Politics

School ‘dentistry duty’ gets the brush-off from leaders’ union

Labour’s pledges 'supervised toothbrushing' for reception pupils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Council faces legal challenge over falling rolls closure plan

Head questions 'protection' of academies and free schools in council's school closures plan

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Two in five trusts shun tutoring as finances worsen

Just 46% of CEOs are confident about the financial sustainability of their trusts, down from 77% last year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Rising costs risk pledge to restore school funding to 2010 levels

IFS predicts school purchasing power will actually be 3% lower than in 2010 by next year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Sunak to replace A-levels with ‘Advanced British standard’

PM wants to merge A-levels and T-levels into new single qualification for sixth formers to study five subjects including...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted has gone from ‘critical friend to just critic’ says children’s tsar

Dame Rachel de Souza likens incoming chief inspector to a 'new Pope', who can 'fix what went wrong'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

School mobile phone ‘ban’ won’t be statutory

But Gillian Keegan warned government will consider introducing new law if schools don't follow advice

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

One in ten cash-strapped councils under government monitoring

FOI reveals 17 councils have so far been ordered to submit 'action plans' to cut deficits to the ESFA...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Fact check: Could state schools deal with ‘influx’ of private kids?

Changing demographics help Labour's argument that its policy won't negatively affect the state sector

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker