Author: Nicky Phillips

Year 9 pupils are being channelled into subject choices depending on their learner profiles and after being handed specially tailored option books, delegates at this year’s Northern Rocks conference heard. Jarlath O’Brien, headteacher at Carwarden House community school for children with special needs, in Camberley, Surrey, raised the issue during a breakout session. He said […]

Under-performing ethnic minority groups have become lost among headlines claiming that white working-class pupils are worse off, an education adviser explained. White pupils from low-income families are the group with the lowest GCSE scores in England, admitted Sameena Choudry, founder of Equitable Education, but focusing on the group is “crude” and inappropriately “lumps pupils together” […]

Tens of millions of pounds in charitable donations are poured into schools every year from the pockets of multi-millionaires. But where does this cash go and what impact does it make? What influence do charitable donations bring? And have they created an uneven playing field in school funding? A Schools Week investigation delves into school […]

The government has failed to rebroker more than two-thirds of academies rated inadequate by Ofsted, seemingly shooting down ministers’ claims their academies revolution enables swift intervention. Education secretary Nicky Morgan has previously been critical of how failing local authority-maintained schools were “left languishing” under councils. One of the key weapons in her argument for supporting the […]

A growing number of schools are using their pupil premium cash to offset budget cuts elsewhere instead of using it to raise the attainment of disadvantaged students, new research shows. A poll of more than 1,500 teachers, published today by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), found 6 per cent of teachers […]

Jewish schools have received almost seven times the amount of government funding for security this year compared with two years ago, Schools Week has learned. Schools serving other faiths have raised questions about whether similar funding would be available to them. The Home Office has granted the Community Security Trust (CST), which funds security measures […]

England’s largest academy chains are divided over how their performance should be judged, written evidence submitted to parliament has revealed. The Commons education committee will next week hold the first oral evidence session of an inquiry into the academy system, which is set to dominate education over the coming years as the government pushes all […]