Author: Nick Linford

It won’t regulate, discipline or force membership – but for £70 a year the newly proposed College of Teaching will support the profession in ‘taking responsibility for its destiny’. That’s the claim of a proposal released today by  the ‘Claim Your College’ coalition, which includes the existing College of Teachers, Prince’s Teaching Institute, Teacher Development Trust, […]

Primary school children will need to pass tests focused on times tables and extended writing – otherwise senior leaders will face the chop. That’s education secretary Nicky Morgan’s new education policy as outlined in the Sunday Times today. Writing in the paper, Ms Morgan said: “We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know […]

Appearing on today’s Andrew Marr Show, Nicky Morgan said it was complete nonsense that Michael Gove is ‘back-seat driving’ the Department for Education. A story in today’s Independent on Sunday described how ex-education secretary Michael Gove is receiving daily copies of detailed education paperwork – and described this action as “extremely unusual”. Asked about Mr Gove’s interference in education […]

Ofsted has admitted than more than half of workers who applied for a waiver to ‘disqualification by association’ rules are still waiting to hear the outcome. The inspectorate said that 147 of the 259 applications from school staff were still under consideration at the time of this article’s publication. So far just 17 have been […]

MPs are demanding a proper strategy from the Department of Education to help prevent unforeseen school scandals such as the “Trojan horse” affair in Birmingham. A damning report on ‘Schools Oversight and Intervention’ by the Public Accounts Committee released today says the DfE’s “light-touch” approach means problems can go undetected in schools until serious damage […]

New trustees have been placed in all the academies in Birmingham involved in the Trojan horse affair Education secretary Nicky Morgan confirmed the move as she updated the House of Commons on Thursday on the progress of the recommendations contained in Peter Clarke’s report. She said all the recommendations were being, or on track to […]