Movers and Shakers

Free school founder joins Ormiston as national transformation director

Well-known leader takes up secondment at country's ninth biggest trust

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Tributes paid to ‘education giant’ Sir Tim Brighouse

One of the country's most influential educators remembered as a 'towering beacon of light'

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
PISA

PISA 2022: Rise in maths, but warning over inflated results

This year's PISA results were supposed to be the measure of whether Gove's reforms were successful - here's what...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Teacher strikes

Leaders slam ‘sham’ anti-strike law consultation

Schools given just 150 characters to comment on controversial minimum service level laws, and must pick a preferred option

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Teaching awards

Revealed: The 2023 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Behaviour

Teachers striking over pupil assaults demand ‘zero-tolerance’ 10-day exclusions

Union reports four physical assaults in the last two weeks alone at troubled Oasis Isle of Sheppey

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Schools Week Reporter
Free schools

Free schools policy has ‘lost its way’, says NSN charity chair

David Ross leads chorus of former Conservative ministers and influential policy leaders pushing for renewed free school focus

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
School funding

Trusts with large reserves must prove they have plans to spend them

Government clarifies its approach to those sitting on large levels of reserves after crackdown calls from spending watchdog

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Schools Week Reporter
Oak National Academy

Legal showdown over Oak quango gets the go-ahead

Bodies representing ed tech and publishing firms say the curriculum body amounts to 'unlawful state subsidy'

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter