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28 April 2026

Author: Nick Linford

League Tables – a guide to the new ks4 + 16-18 headline measures

To download the guide click here (9mb).  The focus in all schools is rightly on the young people sitting in classrooms, working hard each day, to try and learn all they can. It’s noble to believe they do it because it’s fun and intrinsically good. Learning really is those things, but there’s also an extent […]

Ed Miliband pledges to protect ‘overall’ education budget, including 16 to 19 funding

A Labour government will ringfence the entire education budget including for early years and 16 to 19-year-olds, Ed Miliband has announced. Mr Miliband broke his party’s silence on the issue of a ringfence during a speech at his old school, Haverstock, in Camden this morning. His comments come after the Conservatives announced they would protect […]

Miliband’s education speech to focus on class sizes, standards and qualified teachers

A tighter cap on class sizes, higher standards, qualified teachers and a raised status of vocational education will all feature prominently in Ed Miliband’s education speech today. The Labour Party leader will make the key speech at Haverstock School in North London, which he attended from 1981 to 1988, and will mostly cover old ground, […]

Ed Miliband to pledge class size clampdown in key education speech

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband will pledge to cut class sizes when he gives a key speech on education in London tomorrow. According to The Times, Mr Miliband will use the speech at his former school in North London to pledge to clamp down on classes with more than 30 pupils. He will say the […]

MPs write to Nicky Morgan over sixth form colleges VAT exemption

More than 70 MPs have written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan calling for sixth form colleges to be exempted from paying VAT. The government’s controversial policy of continuing to charge sixth form colleges VAT while maintained schools and academies are entitled to a refund of the 20 per cent tax has sparked a campaign by […]

Morgan and Clegg unveil second wave of school building grants

The second wave of grants in the government’s priority school building programme has today been announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. In a joint announcement from the Cabinet Office and Department for Education, 277 schools have been named as recipients of grants from a £2bn fund to rebuild or […]

Ofsted slams school for failing to tackle homophobia and racism

A Cornish school has been criticised by Ofsted for not “responding assertively” to incidences of homophobia and racism. Callington Community College was subjected to a sudden monitoring inspection by the education watchdog, after it had become concerned about the school’s safeguarding procedures. The monitoring inspection report was conducted by Jonathan Palk HMI over two days in […]

Faith leaders support systematic study of humanism

A group of 28 faith leaders has written to schools minister Nick Gibb expressing support for proposals for “systematic study of humanism” in new GCSE and A level religious studies exams. The signatories, including former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue, are calling in the letter […]