‘Alarm’ as two-thirds of schools’ Turing Scheme bids snubbed Ministers told to better support schools through foreign trips scheme as acceptance rate drops from 90% to 30%
Academy trust broke rules over payments to CEO’s mum Government probe finds four-school trust breached academy rules over consultancy payments, £24k on training courses for a senior leader and ‘bypassing’ recruitment processes
AI questions to be trialled in SATs moderator tests Government launches trial in bid to cut costs and school workload, amid push to ‘harness the power of AI’
Admissions watchdog rescinds fair banding approval The controversial decision had allowed a school to introduce the practice
RISE advisers call on their own to support schools Leaders say DfE must be more transparent about improvement team decisions as advisers buy in support from RISE colleagues’ organisations
Oak National Academy judicial review restarts as talks fail Bodies representing ed tech and publishing firms say they were met by ‘wall of silence’ in talks with government
Oak should ditch ‘national academy’ title to ‘stop misconceptions’, says official review Impact review also reveals the curriculum quango has led to reduction in domestic edtech market
Admission appeal fund axe falls hard on grammar schools DfE announced earlier this year it would no longer give academies the cash to fight appeals
Admissions watchdog sides with school over fair banding row Bosses of the Carlton Bolling, in Bradford, have now introduced the controversial practice for next year’s admissions