News

Free breakfasts proposed for primary schools

A parliamentary report that highlighted the problem of children going to school hungry has proposed free breakfasts to tackle...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Why did some results dip last year? Ofqual reveals all…

Last year, on GCSE results day, panicked phone calls came through to the Schools Week office. There were dips...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

Parent-led free schools in steady decline

The future of free schools as independent, standalone institutions is in doubt as new rules requiring academies to join...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

DfE writes off £10m losses on free schools and academies

The Department for Education (DfE) has written off nearly £10 million as losses soar under the expansion of its...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

PFI repayments ‘hold back’ academy conversion

Nicky Morgan has been asked to intervene in a row over a proposed hike in private finance initiative (PFI)...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

School improvement warning notices: is government delaying releases?

The government has been accused of trying to avoid bad publicity by delaying the release of documents relating to...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

What would make an all-academy system work?

The schools landscape could look very different from how it does today, quite quickly, if the government’s vision for...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Top schools now profit from the struggles of the weaker

School improvement funding has moved from allocation based on need to survival of the fittest, says Kiran Gill As...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Politics

Andrew Hall, Ben Parnell and Janet Lord

Andrew Hall, the chief executive of AQA, is retiring at the end of the year. Hall, who joined the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips