Ofsted

School loses court battle over Ofsted downgrade to ‘good’

Thomas Telford school took watchdog to court over row about ‘cooling off periods’ not being registered as suspensions

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
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
Samantha Booth
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
Lucas Cumiskey
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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

DfE: ‘No plans’ to change single-phrase Ofsted judgments

The government will respond to MPs’ concerns this Thursday

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey


SATs

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
Samantha Booth
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
Lucas Cumiskey
Oak National Academy

Oak CEO hunt surpasses a year

Vacancy for £120k-a-year role remains unfilled 12 months since applications closed

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

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
Lucas Cumiskey
School land

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
Jack Dyson
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
Schools Week Reporter