The Legal Leader

Can schools ban parents from sports days?

After a London school made headlines for banning parents from sporting events, two legal experts explore what the law...

John Dickens
Theresa Kerr and Andrea Squires
Geography

How Geography has changed over the past 30 years

While standards have improved in the subject, there is still one systemic weakness, says Steve Brace

John Dickens
Steve Brace
Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,...

John Dickens
Becks Boomer-Clark
News

White paper plan for schools to be part of a ‘group’

Officials working on plan to encourage all schools to join a group, sources told Schools Week

John Dickens
John Dickens
Curriculum

‘I dream the curriculum every night’: leading education’s toughest brief

After 14 months heading the government’s curriculum review, Becky Francis reflects on control, compromise – and finding the right...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Ofsted

ASCL joins Ofsted preparation ‘cottage industry’ it once criticised

Watchdog urges schools not to 'spend limited resources' on preparing for inspection after union launches paid-for webinars

John Dickens
John Dickens
Movers and Shakers

Matt Hood to lead new health reforms ‘delivery unit’

Oak National Academy founder to run new team under health secretary Wes Streeting to cut hospital waiting times and...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Politics

Children’s minister gets beefed-up schools brief as portfolios revealed

Government has confirmed which policies new ministers will be in charge of. Here's your Schools Week guide ...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Opinion: Politics

Class politics: How old school voting habits are unravelling

A new poll showing private school alumni are most likely to vote for Labour reveals just how dramatically politics...

John Dickens
Louis O’Geran