Author: Nick Linford

News, updates and pictures from the eve of the election through to the formation of a new government.

The extremism at the heart of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham won’t be solved overnight, education secretary Nicky Morgan has admitted after hearing reports of death threats sent to teachers and “dismembered cats on the playground”. Speaking to journalists at the NAHT conference in Liverpool, Ms Morgan responded to the claims of Anderton Park […]

The Liberal Democrats have not held talks with the Conservatives or Labour over their demands for education, David Laws has confirmed. Speaking exclusively to Schools Week following his speech to the NAHT conference in Liverpool this morning, the education minister said talks over demands for real-terms, per-pupil funding rises and an end to real-terms public sector […]

A campaign for better governor training and a database of those removed or barred from boards will be launched by the NAHT after a headteacher reported death threats and “dead animals” hung on school gates in Birmingham. Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, headteacher of Birmingham’s Anderton Park School, told the NAHT national conference in Liverpool this morning that […]

Calls for Ofsted to acknowledge the work of special schools have been overwhelmingly backed by the membership of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). At the organisation’s annual conference in Liverpool, 98 per cent of members today voted in favour of a motion criticising the watchdog for failing to mention the work of special […]

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) will call for a national system of data sharing on free school meals entitlement after a motion to its annual conference passed unanimously. Delegates at the conference in Liverpool voted to support a motion calling on the next government to introduce a national system of data sharing which […]

Schools could increasingly turn to the legal system to reject disruptive changes if they are not “appropriately” consulted, NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby has warned. Mr Hobby, who will this weekend urge “maverick” headteachers not to be “tamed” by pursuit of an outstanding Ofsted grade, told journalists that the government could face an increasingly “adversarial” approach from […]

A “national system of levels” could be introduced under a future Labour government, Tristram Hunt has said. During his speech to the National Association of Head Teachers conference in Liverpool, the shadow education secretary criticised the government for what he described as “manic curriculum and assessment reforms” and said he accepted the need for stability. […]