Author: Nick Linford

Labour will work with teachers to “stop” plans to turn all schools into academies, Jeremy Corbyn will say this afternoon. The Labour leader will tell the National Union of Teachers annual conference in Brighton that the government wants to “shut parents out” of having a say in how their children’s schools are run. He will […]

More than £16 million was paid out by schools to teachers who were unfairly dismissed, injured or assaulted at work in 2015, a leading teaching union has said. The National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) has revealed it secured compensation totalling £16,077,329 for its members last year. In a report released […]

All schools should communicate the “risks and threats” of sexting and social media abuse, a leading charity has warned after a union survey revealed more than half of teachers know pupils who have shared sexual messages or pictures. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has called for lessons about internet […]

Teacher recruitment and retention, workload, marking and inspection will be among the key issues up for debate when the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) holds its annual conference this weekend. Members will assemble in Birmingham tomorrow to discuss the impact of government policy on children and young people. The conference […]

Long-serving civil servant Shan Scott is to become England’s new chief schools adjudicator, Nicky Morgan has announced. The education secretary has approved the appointment of Ms Scott, who most recently served as a schools adjudicator but has had links with government education departments since the mid-1980s. She will take over from Dr Elizabeth Passmore on […]

Schools are giving high-needs pupils “weak” information about their post-16 options and failing to provide sufficient information about pupils who move on to other providers, Ofsted has warned. The watchdog’s latest thematic report, which focuses mainly on the work of further education providers, is critical of the advice given to high-needs pupils by schools and a lack of detail […]

Yesterday the government revealed its first major policy document on school reform for six years. Schools Week and Policy Exchange gathered a group of policy experts to read all of its 128-pages and quickly distil the key plans. Panel members were: – Becky Allen: Chief executive of Education Datalab – Sam Freedman: Exective director at Teach […]