BRIT School can’t afford to keep lights on for drummers ‘Raising funds is what I do as a state head, which is unacceptable’
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
Now Teach: DfE axes funding for recruitment programme Ex-DfE advisor and former education secretary criticise funding cut amid recruitment and retention crisis
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’
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
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’
DfE: ‘No plans’ to change single-phrase Ofsted judgments The government will respond to MPs’ concerns this Thursday
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 years
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