Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross

A bug affecting school information management systems may have corrupted pupil data at thousands of schools around the country. The error has hit Capita’s Schools Information Management System (SIMS), which supplies information management to 23,000 schools. An email from Hampshire council’s children’s services department, seen by Schools Week, was sent to every headteacher in the […]

Schools cannot solve the childhood obesity epidemic and should focus on education instead, according to a new report from Ofsted. Last year the inspectorate carried out research in 60 primary schools across England to ascertain whether schools are having a demonstrable impact on levels of childhood obesity. Although it found that many schools had a […]

Bright Tribe, the academy chain at the centre of a row over the running of schools in the north of England, is to close, Schools Week understands. The under-fire trust, which had already announced plans to walk away from four of its northern schools following a row over performance, will now give up all ten […]

The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into a leading Islamic school after police arrested two members of staff and seized weapons on the school site. The watchdog received a serious incident report following a raid by armed police at the independent Darul Uloom London school in Bromley in May. The Metropolitan Police were called to […]

The former head of the UK’s largest Montessori network defrauded the charity of more than £180,000 over the course of seven years. Philip Bujak, the former CEO of the Montessori St Nicholas charity, was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday for misusing a company credit card, filing false invoices and secretly taking a cut […]

School leaders have a responsibility to check on the quality of health and care services prescribed to their pupils outside school, but few do so, according to a senior Ofsted inspector. Jonathan Jones, a special educational needs adviser at Ofsted, said the watchdog expected schools to look beyond the “education” elements of education, health and […]

The new T-levels will be delivered by just one exam board to “protect the standard” of the qualification. But assessment experts believe the change could be a dry-run for reintroducing single exam boards for A-levels and GCSEs. Each of the 15 new Technical levels, intended as alternatives to A-levels, which will be taught in schools […]

Jewish faith leaders have urged the schools inspectorate to show more “respect” for faith schools. Members of the Orthodox Jewish community raised concerns after inspectors placed a girls’ school that censored teaching materials into special measures. But chief inspector of schools Amanda Spielman denied that Ofsted has a “secular agenda”. Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School […]