Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross

Businesses and education organisations have made over 60 pledges to encourage more flexible working in schools, the Department for Education has announced today. Teacher recruitment and retention are pinch points for the government, after it failed to meet teacher training targets for five years in a row. A flexible working summit held in October asked […]

A large academy trust has been praised by Ofsted for its “journey of systematic improvement” after a focused inspection at seven of its schools. The Diocese of Ely Multi-Academy Trust (DEMAT), which has 27 primary schools across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk, was commended for its “wholehearted commitment to improving the life chances of pupils”. […]

Schools will be offered grants to recruit undergraduates as paid interns in the hope of persuading more young people to become maths and physics teachers, the government has announced. Under plans revealed today, schools can apply for funding to offer a minimum of 10 STEM undergraduate students “the chance to gain a deep experience of […]

The Bright Tribe academy trust is in discussions with the government about walking away from all of its schools in the north of England, the national schools commissioner has revealed. Sir David Carter told MPs that “conversations about Bright Tribe moving out of the north” began in September, and would continue following the trust’s decision […]

Ofsted has confirmed it will go ahead with plans to change the way it carries out short inspections of good-rated schools from next month. Under the new plans, set out in September, inspectors will continue to convert short inspections into full inspections, usually within 48 hours, if they have serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or […]

A “radical shake-up” of mental health support in schools, including more than £300 million for “thousands” of new support staff, will be pledged in the government’s long-awaited green paper. The consultation document on children and young people’s mental health will be released on Monday, and will include £95 million for schools to appoint and train designated […]

The government will announce proposals for extra funding for mental health support in schools in a green paper due to be released on Monday. These are the policies that will be announced… 1. More than £300m funding The government is proposing to commit £310 million in new funding to supporting mental health in young people, […]

The government has failed to train enough teachers for any Ebacc subjects except for history, official statistics have revealed. The data released today shows teacher supply model (TSM) targets were missed across the board, despite the fact that the overall number of people beginning postgraduate initial teacher training (ITT) courses rose by 1,145 from 26,750 […]

The number of students resitting the English language GCSE has risen by almost a third in the first year of the reformed exams, despite an overall drop in the number of pupils retaking exams. Statistics released by Ofqual show there was an overall drop of 19 per cent in GCSE entries for the November resits, […]