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 2h Schools Week Reporter 2h MATs Exclusive Trust sues ex-bosses over global business trips, holiday cottages – and wants wages repaid Full story of the landmark SchoolsCompany Trust court case as trustees chased for missing £2.8 million Freddie Whittaker 8h Freddie Whittaker 8h Academies Investigation Academy commissioner costs soar by 40% after restructure Teams now cost more than £3,000 for each of England’s academies Jack Dyson 8h Jack Dyson 8h MATs Exclusive SchoolsCompany: £900k, three years … and still no final claims Landmark academy court case criticised over ‘scandalous’ costs and delays Freddie Whittaker 8h Freddie Whittaker 8h Exams Progress 8 pause: Heads call for wider review But some heads have warned the sector could creep back to GCSE pass grades being the accountability ‘king’ Samantha Booth 15h Samantha Booth 15h Exams No school progress measure for next two years The Department for Education had explored alternative options, but concluded there is ‘no replacement’ for progress 8 measure Samantha Booth 1d Samantha Booth 1d Climate change Calls for review of ‘undervalued’ climate education A third of secondary teachers did not believe they spent enough time teaching about climate change Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d SEND NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role SEND leaders are playing a ‘crucial role’ in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d Ofsted Ofsted criticises ‘limited and poor quality’ RE lessons 5 key findings from Ofsted’s religious education subject report Lucas Cumiskey 2d Lucas Cumiskey 2d Funding CST outlines 4 reforms for ‘fairer’ school funding Academy body calls for SEND cash through the national funding formula, a policy premium and new private finance building… Jack Dyson 2d Jack Dyson 2d SATs Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded Samantha Booth 3d Samantha Booth 3d High Court Michaela school wins High Court battle over prayer ban Policy did not ‘interfere’ with a Muslim pupil’s religious freedoms because she had ‘chosen the school knowing its strict… Lucas Cumiskey 3d Lucas Cumiskey 3d 1 2 3 4 5 6 891 Older
