Samantha Booth | Schools Week

Trust sets up own tutoring company to stop £1bn catch-up cash seeping into private sector

A former regional school commissioner turned trust CEO is spearheading a new school-led tutoring agency to ensure government catch-up cash doesn’t get “dissipated” on profit-making companies. Unity Schools Partnership (USP), which has 29 academies in eastern England, has set up a trading subsidiary company called Schools Partnership Tutors. They hope to get approval for a […]

Confidence in accuracy of new inspections falls, long-awaited full Ofsted survey shows

Fewer schools think Ofsted’s new inspections are accurate and clear, full survey results finally released by the watchdog have revealed. Ofsted has today published the full responses to it post-inspection surveys, which includes those dating back to 2015 under the old framework. It follows a Freedom of Information request battle by Schools Week to get […]

Barred: Teachers in challenging schools shut out of DfE schemes over EBacc rates

Teachers in the most challenging schools are being barred from shaping policy or sharing their expertise as government limits access to its schemes based on EBacc entry rates. Analysis by Schools Week has found at least five Department for Education initiatives where a quota of pupils entered into the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) was part of […]