Jess Staufenberg | Schools Week

Revealed: the lack of diversity in education leadership roles

Only three per cent of the largest academy trusts in the country are led by non-white bosses, a new analysis by Schools Week has found. Revealing a stark diversity gap in education’s top jobs, our study suggests just two chief executives of the 72 academy trusts with 15 schools or more are black, Asian and […]

NFER: Teachers who work longer hours more likely to stay in profession and 6 other key findings

Teachers who work longer hours are slightly more likely to stay in the profession, according to new research. The Ofsted rating of a school is also the most important school-level factor in terms of teachers quitting, the National Foundation for Educational Research has found. Researchers analysed school workforce census data as well as the Labour […]

Teacher “churn” doubles in five years, NFER study finds

The proportion of teachers moving to new jobs in other schools has risen rapidly over five years, a “churn” that is regularly overlooked by ministers within the retention crisis, according to new research. The National Foundation for Educational Research has found that whereas five per cent of primary school teachers moved school in 2010-11, that […]

Capital expenditure on schools has dropped 40 per cent since 2010, says Labour

Government spending on school buildings will have dropped by more than 40 per cent in eight years, Labour has calculated ahead of the Budget next week. Capital expenditure in education will have fallen from £8.8 billion in the year of 2010-11, to £5.2 billion spent in 2018-19, or a 41 per cent drop – prompting […]

Trainee teachers with bursaries are less likely to get teaching jobs

Graduates given bursaries of up to £26,000 to train as teachers were less likely to get jobs in schools than those without bursaries, according to a new government study. Trainees with larger bursaries were also less likely to go on to teach than those trainees with smaller bursaries. The Department for Education has published its […]

Schools refer nearly 5,000 more pupils to social services

Schools are sending more vulnerable children to social care services, with more than 119,000 cases last year, the latest government data has revealed. In 2017-18, schools were responsible for referring 119,030 children in need to social care services, an increase of nearly 4,500 compared with the previous year. This was 18.2 per cent of of the […]

Schools ‘incentivised’ to off-roll SEND pupils mid-year to keep high needs cash

Schools with resource units for special educational needs pupils are incentivised to off-roll youngsters halfway through the year because they can keep the £10,000 allocated to them, a SEND expert has warned. Justin Cooke, policy and public affairs manager at Ambitious About Autism, told the Commons education select committee this morning that cash-strapped schools can […]

New ‘specialist graduate school’ faces ‘overlap’ with Chartered College

The as-yet unnamed organisation bringing together Ambition School Leadership and the Institute for Teaching will be a “specialist graduate school” – but is still trying to define itself from the Chartered College of Teaching. Ambition School Leadership and the Institute for Teaching, both of which focus on teacher development, merged in July this year and […]

Revealed: The private schools that remain open despite standards warnings

A private school has been forced to close most classes after the government threatened to shut it down over poor standards – despite other failing schools remaining open, including one that has failed eight inspections. Only the kindergarten is open at Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley, Hertfordshire after the Department for Education threatened to deregister […]