Opinion

Why the latest research shows heads should give teaching assistants space to do their jobs

The Education Endowment Foundation has released its latest research on new tools for teaching assistants and called for them...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Sir Michael Wilshaw: RSCs’ role ‘not clear’ and relationships with Ofsted ‘a bit tense’

The role of regional schools commissioners (RSCs) is “not clear” and relationships between them and Ofsted are “a bit...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Ofsted brings school childcare inspections back in-house

School-based childcare provision will no longer be visited by external inspectors from next year after Ofsted announced it was bringing...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Teacher shortages ‘detrimental’ to education as reliance on supply staff and non-specialists rises, heads warn

Teacher shortages are having a “detrimental impact” on pupils’ education and seeing them increasingly taught by supply staff and...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Randomly allocating places in over-subscribed schools is the fairest option

As parents find out if their child will go to their preferred secondary school, Alastair Thomson considers what governors...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Ofqual chair Amanda Spielman to replace Glenys Stacey as interim chief regulator

Ofqual chair Amanda Spielman will act as chief regulator on an interim basis when Glenys Stacey leaves next week,...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

EEF: Use teaching assistants for small groups, not as ‘substitute teachers’

Schools should be using teaching assistants to improve results of small groups instead of “as substitute teachers for low-attaining...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

‘Troubling’ variation in state and private school grades needs investigation, say subject experts

New figures have revealed a “troubling” difference in subject attainment between independent and state school pupils – with fee-paying...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Education and adoption bill: 200 schools face immediate intervention

Failing schools will face immediate intervention once the government’s education and adoption bill becomes law in April, and Schools...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford