Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross

Ofsted has sought to reassure faith leaders that Muslim pupils won’t be “singled out” during inspections, following a fierce backlash over guidance that advised inspectors to question younger girls who wear the hijab to school. Instead, headscarves will be discussed with groups of children as a “theme”, as inspectors try to address concerns about schools […]

The leader of an academy trust heavily criticised for the way it has run certain schools in the north of England has resigned. Mary McKeeman, the chief operating officer at the Bright Tribe Trust has stepped down and been replaced by the director of primary education, Heidi Hoskin. The news was revealed by the Education Uncovered blog […]

Staff at a failing school in Cumbria have signed an open letter demanding that the school be removed from its sponsor, as local campaigners prepare for a crunch meeting later this week. Teachers at Whitehaven Academy have been left “broken” by the way the Bright Tribe academy trust has run the school, and want action […]

The exams regulator Ofqual is proposing that a 20-hour non-examined assessment in computer science should no longer count towards pupils’ overall GCSE grades, after “widespread rule breaches” in which tasks from the test were posted online. The watchdog is consulting on changes to the assessment, currently worth 20 per cent of pupils’ overall grades, after it […]

Bright Tribe Trust has backed out of a failing school in Northumberland that it was supposed to convert into an academy over a year ago. It continues the trust’s record of struggling to take over new schools despite receiving almost £1 million of government funding to aid them. Bright Tribe has recently had success in converting […]

Church of England schools have failed to stamp out “inappropriate” and “damaging” discriminatory admissions policies, according to a new report. The report, published by the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education on behalf of the Fair Admissions Campaign, accuses the Church of “misselling its schools to the public” by presenting them as schools for the community […]