Movers and Shakers

Unity names new CEO following Coulson’s departure

Boss of private school group set to become 40-school trust’s chief executive

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

High Court rejects NAHT’s Ofsted report card challenge

Leaders’ union to consider appeal and will consult members on industrial action after judicial review application refused

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Teacher pay

10 things we learned from DfE teacher pay evidence

Department believes schools can make savings by looking at composition of leadership teams and deployment of support staff

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment and retention

Heads need ‘relational’ skills to manage ‘increasingly complex range of stakeholders’

Teacher wellbeing charity warned many of its 2023 recommendations have not been acted on by ministers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

SEND reforms must address transport pressures, says spending watchdog

Eight findings from the National Audit Office’s report on home-to-school transport

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher pay

DfE suggests 6.5% teacher pay rise – but over three years

Department publishes its evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News

Strategic school improvement capital budget: What schools need to know

DfE finally publishes guidance on shady academy fund that has paid out tens of millions over the past decade

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Ofqual to publicly ‘rebuke’ rule-breaking exam boards

The regulator says the new punishment will help it take a more ‘agile’ approach

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Schools

Reform council’s school transport cut call ‘Victorian’, says Phillipson

Phillipson rejects call to extend the distance children can be expected to make their own way to school

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Recruitment and retention

Trust’s 9-day fortnight boosted wellbeing, but ‘overwhelmed’ some staff

Another paper finds impact of including other perks in teacher job adverts ‘comparable to a 10 per cent salary…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School buildings

Estates strategy ‘very soon’: 6 findings from DfE grilling

Minister and senior mandarin quizzed on rebuilding delays, RAAC spending and ‘older building’ research

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Phillipson sets 2029 deadline for RAAC removal

Education secretary wants crumbly concrete removed from all schools or replacement rebuilding works started this Parliament

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker