News

DfE settles with Ambition over £121m Institute of Teaching contract dispute

Size of fee paid out to settle case likely to be kept secret, but Ambition was demanding £750k

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John Dickens
Teacher training

Ambition wants £750k damages over ‘unlawful’ Institute of Teaching snub

Schools Week can also reveal the DfE is challenging an injunction to name the winning bid, as court documents...

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John Dickens
Exams

‘We don’t want to be known as the kids who didn’t do GCSEs’

Schools Week editor John Dickens joined Ofqual chief regulator Dr Jo Saxton as her tour of schools across the...

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John Dickens
Teacher training

High Court challenge lodged over £121m Institute of Teaching

Ambition Institute launches legal claim against the Department for Education

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John Dickens
Schools

Holland Park probe reveals pupil humiliation, racism and Ofsted misled

Governors to refer staff member to Teaching Regulation Agency and launch disciplinary investigations into others

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John Dickens
News

Pupils with high temperature should not sit exams, new guidance states

Unions dumbfounded why free testing has not been brought back for exam pupils, rather than current 'Covid guessing game'

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John Dickens
Schools white paper

The ‘evidence-led education secretary’ isn’t being led by the evidence

Professor Stephen Gorard questions the government's case for an all-academy system

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Professor Stephen Gorard
SEND review

What the SEND review got right, could do better and the next steps

The green paper offers 'sorely needed solutions', but the education committee chair wants 'concrete action urgently'

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Robert Halfon MP
Academies

Zahawi admits reform failures. But can he win over academy sceptics?

The education secretary speaks to Schools Week about his plans for schools, and why he doesn't want to 'play...

John Dickens
John Dickens