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To become education secretary, you should be privately educated, child-free and summer-born

If you want to be an education secretary you should be privately educated, have no children, and have a July or August birthday, writes Laura McInerney, whose presentation at SSAT gave an insight into what school leaders can learn from politicians. Politicians are forever visiting schools to “learn” from them, but how often do school […]

Opinion

Russell Group sticks by ‘preferred subjects’ list – but still has no evidence

The Russell Group has continued to advise pupils to take a group of “preferred subjects” at A-level to help them to get into top universities, despite research suggesting that they are not necessary. The higher education group, which represents 24 “elite” universities such as LSE, Oxford and Cambridge today released the fifth edition of its […]

News

Schools Week editor joins Townley grammar debate

Pupils at Townley grammar school in Kent grilled Schools Week editor Laura McInerney at a recent debate on the government’s plan for more selective schools. The Bexleyheath school uses the 11-plus to select pupils, with some travelling up to two hours each way to attend. An eight-person panel, including pupils from the school, McInerney and […]

Politics

Women need to get even – let’s ban men from school names

Is anyone bored of hearing the ways women are disadvantaged in education? I am. Commentators like me bang on and on about women being relatively less likely to become leaders, less likely to get into Oxbridge, more likely to get low wages. Frankly, it all gets a bit samey. But that’s because inequality is boring. […]

Opinion

A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings

The education select committee has quizzed senior civil servants as part of their latest hearing into academy finances. Schools Week has rounded up the key findings.   1. More than one in three academy trusts have declared related-party transactions Education Funding Agency boss Peter Lauener said that last year 1,055 of the 2,905 academy trusts […]

News

Pupils who were not white British told to send in birthplace data

Schools are demanding copies of pupils’ passports, and asking parents to confirm if their children are asylum seekers or refugees amid confusion over a new legal duty requiring the collection of nationality data. Schools Week revealed in June that the Department for Education (DfE) had expanded the census details schools must collect from this month […]

News

There’s more to worry about than grammars

Spending the summer worrying about the return of grammar schools is like worrying the NHS is about to reintroduce frontal lobotomies. Lobotomies, like grammars, were a miracle cure of the 1940s. At their peak more than 1,000 people a year had metal spikes pushed into their skulls, swished around, and withdrawn, in the belief that […]

Opinion

GCSE results 2016: Live Blog

Thousands of teenagers find out the results of their GCSEs today, amid a year of changes to the accountability measures. Among those pupils are those who did not pass the 11+ exams and attended secondary modern schools across the country. An often ignored, but tremendously important group, we wanted to share their true “underdog” stories […]

Exam results, News

A-level results 2016: Today’s top 7 stories

As A-level results day draws to a close, Schools Week has rounded up our top stories.   1. A-level pass rates are pretty stable, but there’s something fishy going on with creative subjects Our first take on the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) A-level figures released today explored three main findings – overall stability, a drop […]

Exam results, News