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Interventions in failing schools cost £382m a year – and ‘make little difference’, says public spending watchdog

More than half of underperforming maintained schools did not improve after ‘formal intervention’, such as a change of governance or turning the school into an academy, says the National Audit Office (NAO). They did better where there was no formal intervention, despite the cost of overseeing school improvement reaching £382m a year, the public spending […]

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Caption competition – what did Laura ask Tristram?

This week our Deputy Editor Laura McInerney interviewed the Shadow Education secretary Tristram Hunt in his office at the Houses of Parliament. We’ll have exclusive coverage in our next edition, published this Friday. Subscribe here. But can you guess what Laura asked Tristram? Leave a caption in the box below before Friday to be in with a […]

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Frank Green, national schools commissioner, DfE

Frank Green’s name is half-prophetic. Within seconds of entering a small office in the Department for Education, he is already being outrageously honest. “Have I been briefed?! I’ve never been so briefed for the press since I started working at the department. Almost every word you have to memorise.” If the press officer at his […]

Features

Three days of stalking David Laws: Lib Dem Conference round-up

In politics there’s a thin line between ‘boring’ and ‘professional’. Over the four days of Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, however, the Schools Minister – David Laws – somehow managed to be both. I knew entering his final session – a Ministerial Q&A – that there would likely be little of note for teachers. A […]

Opinion

“Nicky Morgan & The Narrative of Success (If Few Policies)”: Day Two Conservative Conference Round-Up

Labelling new education secretary, Nicky Morgan, as ‘continuity Gove’, initially seemed a smart move by Labour. But her Conservative Party Conference speech distinctly shifted the rhetoric and left the audience in no doubt that she’s now running her own show. Gone was the labelling of lefty teachers and union leaders as “the blob”. In came […]

Opinion

Morgan’s Priorities & No-Thunder Boles: Day One Round-Up of Conservative Conference

The prevailing view among political commentators is that education isn’t a major issue for this election. If that’s true, the Conservative ministerial team aren’t letting it show. They have a battle narrative and are willing to use it. In an event jointly hosted by teaching unions NUT and ATL, junior edu-minister Sam Gyimah showed how […]

Opinion

Right Angles: More than one angle on wearing the niqab

A student sent home for flouting uniform code is not exactly a hard-hitting story. But in a case this week the newspapers were all over just such a story for the simple reason that the student was muslim and her transgression was the wearing of the niqab, a face-covering veil. Reported first by the BBC, […]

Opinion

EXCLUSIVE: DfE to release free school application forms

The Department for Education (DfE) has agreed to release application forms submitted for all successful free schools, after a freedom of information battle lasting two years. Some of the documents could be released as early as this afternoon. The DfE has previously refused to make the documents available, arguing that to do so would give […]

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Hunt’s Fight Back : Day 2 Roundup of Labour Conference

Where yesterday’s conference speeches from shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt felt like an imbalanced half of a football game; today felt like his comeback tour. In a speech and question session at the NASUWT union fringe Tristram Hunt came out fighting – defending Labour’s record on sponsored academies and outing problems with Ofsted. But let’s […]

Opinion