Nick Linford | Schools Week

Pay teachers ‘golden handcuff’, Ofsted boss Michael Wilshaw urges

Teachers should get ‘golden handcuff’ payouts in a bid to tackle recruitment and retention problems, Sir Michael Wilshaw will say today. Launching Ofsted’s annual report, which will identify teacher recruitment as a “very real problem” across England, Sir Michael will call for financial incentives to tackle shortages of teachers in STEM subjects and issues with teachers […]

Government reveals 485 teachers on £65k+ as recruitment advert investigation continues

Hundreds of teachers are paid £65,000-a-year or more, the Department for Education has revealed as an investigation into complaints that it ‘misled’ the public in a recruitment advert continues. In transparency data re-released in the wake of at least 95 official complaints over its latest teacher recruitment advert, the government has confirmed 485 classroom teachers earned more […]

What did we learn from MPs’ latest grilling of Nicky Morgan?

Education secretary Nicky Morgan and her team just faced questions in the House of Commons. Here’s what we learned. 1. The ‘excessive’ workload faced by teachers is Labour’s fault It would seem it’s not just the state of the economy which is still being pinned on the Labour government which left office in May 2010. […]

Education Select Committee to examine ‘purpose and quality’ of education in England

The “purpose and quality of education” will be examined by MPs in the new year, it has been announced. The House of Commons education committee will lead an inquiry into the “purpose” of education for all children in England and appropriate measures of its quality. The inquiry aims to discover: – The purpose of education […]

IES Breckland: Country’s only school run by for-profit company comes out of special measures

The only free school in England run by a for-profit company has come out of special measures after almost two years. IES Breckland in Brandon, Suffolk, has been told by Ofsted that it no longer requires the intensive monitoring of the special measures category and simply “requires improvement”. Following a visit earlier this month, inspectors said the quality […]

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Why ‘Tired Teachers’ Might Hold The Clue To The Teacher Shortage

During an event at the RSA, editor Laura McInerney revealed for the first time the paper’s investigations into ‘Tired Teachers’ Over the summer our newsroom had one mission: to find out why everyone in schools said there was a teacher shortage yet government stats didn’t agree. We published our first deep investigations back in […]

National funding formula could create ‘significant numbers’ of winners and losers, IFS warns

The implementation of a national funding formula for schools could create “significant numbers” of winners and losers or lead to large cuts for inner-London schools, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned. The IFS today set out two options which could be explored by the government as it seeks to introduce a national formula from […]

Fairer national school funding formula to begin in 2017

After years of campaigning, advocates for a national fair funding formula have been told by George Osborne that it will be introduced from 2017. Details of the Spending Review laid out by Mr Osborne in Parliament state the formula will “end the unfair system where a child from a disadvantaged background in one school attracts […]