Academies

Conflict questions as Labour moves to single regulator

Former official claims closing ESFA 'bad news for transparency and fairness', but others welcome the change

Jack Dyson
Freddie Whittaker
Music

£6m music pilot launched for disadvantaged children

Cash injection expected to help charity 'supercharge' existing music programme

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies, SEND

Schools look to SEND trusts over rising pupil need

Mainstream schools increasingly looking for 'specialist help' to deal with youngsters' needs

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Turnaround academy trust stops turnarounds (for now)

Outwood Grange moves away from 'central view' of education - and will even pause taking on the toughest schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Recruitment and retention

Pledge for 6,500 new teachers may not be delivered for years

Special unit assembled in DfE to work on Labour's manifesto commitment, but concern grows over speediness of plan

Jack Dyson
Lucas Cumiskey and Jack Dyson
Grammar Schools

Mock 11-plus entrance exams boost grammars’ funds

Investigation finds tens of thousands raised through PTA-run tests help grammars pay for laptops, cricket nets and new buildings

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Education policy

School improvement teams ‘will offer support to all’

New regional teams pledged in Labour manifesto will be rolled out from early 2025

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Academies Enterprise Trust rebrands as Lift Schools

Move will match trust's 'grown ambitions', boss says

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Trust ditches job titles like CEO to ‘avoid top-down control’

Dixons will instead have more than 20 staff called 'school and college trust leaders'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson