AI

DfE plans to use AI to help answer your emails

Plans say system can reduce time to draft a response from 30 to just one minute

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Exclusions

Internal exclusion: Reset or rejection?

Government does not collect national data on internal exclusion. But new figures reveal how often the controversial practice is…

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

SEND roadshow sessions ‘have shaped our thinking’, insists Gould

Schools Week joined the schools minister in Darlington to discuss the DfE’s recent consultation

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Ofsted

Trust inspections and new intervention powers: What we know so far

Ofsted to inspect academy trusts for the first time and DfE plans sweeping intervention powers

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Exams

New GCSE results app to be rolled out nationwide

It follows a pilot where just six per cent of invited schools and colleges took part, but ministers hope…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted MAT inspections could begin in 2027

New legislation will also give DfE new intervention powers to ‘step in’ when trusts don’t meet standards

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks


Academies

Lift academy trust set to hand over two special schools

The 58-school MAT believes both academies will be ‘best supported within a specialist trust’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

New year’s honours knighthood for Cabot CEO Stephen Taylor

Plus a damehood for a prominent professor of social mobility as 57 in the school sector recognised

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Cost of DfE’s school insurance scheme to rise 7.4%

Risk protection arrangement costs have risen by 61 per cent since 2020

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Free school meals

London free school meals expansion hasn’t boosted attainment – evaluation

But researchers warn short-term effects ‘difficult to detect’ as families report positive impacts on finances and stress

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Ofsted

Ofsted enacts ‘contingency plan’ as inspection notes software glitches again

Inspectors adjusting to new framework will have to follow ‘alternative processes’ when inspections resume in January

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: PTI, Lift, Camden Learning, Windsor

This week’s movers and shakers include a keen horse rider, a board game enthusiast, a hiker and a football…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter