Ofsted Exclusive School loses court battle over Ofsted downgrade to ‘good’ Thomas Telford in Shropshire must pay watchdog’s costs of £42,000 on top of its own legal fees Lucas Cumiskey 14mins Lucas Cumiskey 14mins Ofsted Ofsted to explore how AI can help it make ‘better decisions’ Watchdog sets out how it will use artificial intelligence, including training inspectors on the technology Samantha Booth 2h Samantha Booth 2h News GCSE results will suffer ‘well into 2030s’ due to Covid – study Academics warn of ‘unprecedented’ widening of the attainment gap, in a post-Covid ‘double whammy’ Lucas Cumiskey 12h Lucas Cumiskey 12h Exams Deprived schools more likely to see progress 8 scores fall Analysis comes as Covid impact and potential Labour changes may spell end to measure in its current form Freddie Whittaker 19h Freddie Whittaker 19h Movers and Shakers Movers and shakers: McCandless, Coiffait-Gunn, MacKenzie, Robinson, Uttley, Spackman Leader who worked on Bill Clinton’s campaign and journalist who dined with Donald Trump among those with new jobs… Freddie Whittaker 1d Freddie Whittaker 1d Ofsted DfE: ‘No plans’ to change single-phrase Ofsted judgments The government will respond to MPs’ concerns this Thursday Lucas Cumiskey 2d Lucas Cumiskey 2d SATs Exclusive Primaries fail to opt out of SATs – but say they won’t be testing FOI data reveals just 7 per cent of primary schools opted out of receiving KS1 papers Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d Recruitment Focus on recruitment schemes that will make a difference, ministers urged A Schools Week FOI revealed a government scheme to recruit armed forces veterans has tanked Lucas Cumiskey 3d Lucas Cumiskey 3d Oak National Academy Oak CEO hunt surpasses a year Vacancy for £120k-a-year role remains unfilled 12 months since applications closed Samantha Booth 4d Samantha Booth 4d Academies Exclusive Trusts struggling to close ‘unacceptable’ gender pay gap The gap did narrow at 12 of the 20 biggest trusts but there has been little progress in recent… Lucas Cumiskey 5d Lucas Cumiskey 5d School land Exclusive Ministers eye new ‘spot checks’ to monitor playing field sell-offs Government reveals new measures ‘under consideration’ to check land sale conditions have been met Jack Dyson 5d Jack Dyson 5d School funding Teaching assistants cut in 75% of primary schools More headteachers cut staff amid warning primaries face ‘rapid deterioration’ due to funding woes Schools Week Reporter 5d Schools Week Reporter 5d 1 2 3 4 5 6 892 Older