Author: Nick Linford

Green MP Caroline Lucas will today renew her efforts to make PSHE compulsory in schools when she presents a bill to Parliament with cross-party support. The PSHE bill, based an earlier piece of legislation tabled by the Brighton Pavilion MP, but which never made it past first reading last July, will be read following Prime […]

Ofsted’s renewed call for more places in school-based early years provision is a sign the watchdog is “panicking” over government plans to double free childcare allowances for working parents, an early years expert has claimed. Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector, spoke today about the need for schools to take “more disadvantaged two-year-olds” and “work […]

As the education and adoption bill crawls its way through the committee stage, Schools Week senior reporter Freddie Whittaker had his eyes glued to proceedings. Here, he recaps the events of the most recent sittings.. We are now three clauses away from completing the committee stage of the education and adoption bill, which is timely […]

A free school in Birmingham has been dubbed inadequate and placed into special measures by Ofsted, just weeks after its leader lambasted other schools across the city. The Perry Beeches III, part of the Perry Beeches Academy Trust, received the lowest inspection grade for the quality of teaching, leadership and management, and pupil achievement. The […]

Graduates face too many confusing routes into teaching and would benefit from a central “one-stop shop” for advice and applications, according to an MP and heads. Speaking in parliament, Labour MP for Brentford and Isleworth, Ruth Cadbury, said Brentford School for Girls has tackled a shortage of science teachers by recruiting graduates into unfilled posts. […]

Ethnic minority children are “substantially” more likely than white children to attend schools where ethnic minorities are in the majority, research released by the Demos Integration Hub has found. Analysis by the think-tank shows that 61 per cent of ethnic minority children in England began school  made up the majority of the student body, with […]

The government has lifted a financial notice to improve placed on the beleaguered E-ACT Academy Trust more than two years ago. The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has written to the trust to lift the notice, which was first issued in March 2013 and updated last September. It comes after E-ACT released 10 of its schools […]

The government’s focus on accountability is increasing anxiety among pupils and contributing to “disaffection and poor behaviour”, a National Union of Teachers (NUT) study has claimed. The study, Exam factories: The impact of accountability measures on children and young people by London Metropolitan University emeritus professor Merryn Hutchings, also concluded that time spent on creative […]