News

Flagship free school principal jailed for fraud

The principal of a flagship free school has been jailed for five years for his part in defrauding the...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Heathrow UTC hit with financial notice to improve after ‘loss of control’

The Heathrow Aviation Engineering University Technical College has been issued with a financial notice to improve by the Education...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Angela Rayner: Full text of Labour Conference 2016 speech

Conference, it is an honour for me to stand before you today as Shadow Secretary of State for Education....

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Mary Bousted, general secretary of ATL and TUC president

Mary Bousted is sitting in her central London office near Trafalgar Square and quibbling with my first question. “It’s...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

School are not mini-immigration offices – and never should be

Schools should not make parents show their children’s passports. For anything. That’s a really simple rule. It’s also a...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Former Gove advisor wants to defeat ‘garbage’ grammar schools policy

This was not your usual anti-government opposition. “How do we defeat this pile of garbage in parliament?” Sam Freedman,...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Why grammars are a five-sided dice trick

A jumbo five-sided dice is due to land at the Schools Week towers this week. It is smooth, blue,...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

The utopian origins of comprehensive schools

The first in a weekly series of columns looking into the archives of education and using the past to...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

There’s more to worry about than grammars

Spending the summer worrying about the return of grammar schools is like worrying the NHS is about to reintroduce...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney