School funding

BRIT School can’t afford to keep lights on for drummers

'Raising funds is what I do as a state head, which is unacceptable'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Ofsted chief wants inspection to feel like ‘peer review system’

Inspection should be 'of the system, by the system, for children and parents', says Sir Martyn Oliver

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Recruitment

Now Teach: DfE axes funding for recruitment programme

Ex-DfE advisor and former education secretary criticise funding cut amid recruitment and retention crisis

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
High Court

School slams Ofsted’s ‘mystifying’ refusal to explain grade, High Court hears

All Saints Academy Dunstable claims Ofsted did not provide 'adequate reasons for very serious judgments'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

School loses court battle over Ofsted downgrade to ‘good’

Thomas Telford school took watchdog to court over row about 'cooling off periods' not being registered as suspensions

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
News

GCSE results will suffer ‘well into 2030s’ due to Covid – study

Academics warn of 'unprecedented' widening of the attainment gap, in a post-Covid 'double whammy'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

DfE: ‘No plans’ to change single-phrase Ofsted judgments

The government will respond to MPs' concerns this Thursday

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Trusts struggling to close ‘unacceptable’ gender pay gap

The gap did narrow at 12 of the 20 biggest trusts but there has been little progress in recent...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Recruitment

Focus on recruitment schemes that will make a difference, ministers urged

A Schools Week FOI revealed a government scheme to recruit armed forces veterans has tanked

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey