Falling rolls

Unfilled primary places soar as falling rolls crisis spreads

Areas with more than 1 in 5 spare primary places set to treble next year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Jack Dyson
SATs

SATs 2024: Schools face results ‘queue’ system

Leaders face 'enduring same frustrations as music fans struggling to get concert tickets', says union

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Election 2024

Enough spare classrooms to meet Labour nursery pledge

Party has said it would spend £140 million converting spare classrooms into nurseries at 3,334 primary schools

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

‘Children are our future and it’s for them that Tim dedicated his life’ 

Hundreds gather to remember the late Sir Tim Brighouse

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Election 2024

Phillipson: ‘It’s my job to get education back up the agenda’

The shadow education secretary on why private schools need to cut their cloth, emulating Gove and curriculum change

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Election 2024

‘While I teach history, I’m going to make history’: Meet the teachers standing for election

At least 25 candidates with teaching backgrounds are standing for election this year

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Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Covid

DfE Covid lockdown party may have gone on past 1am

Staff swiped out of Sanctuary Buildings 34 times after 10am on night of party, 8 times after 1am

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Mental health

Study: Access to school counselling would ‘pay for itself’ in 10 years

Counselling could help 'missing middle' of children who don't meet mental health treatment thresholds, Public First study says

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Recruitment and retention

Teaching workforce grows by just 259 as recruitment stalls

Almost as many teachers left the profession as entered it last year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth