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The ‘zombie’ grammar schools policy that refused to die

The hugely controversial policy to open new grammar schools crashed after Theresa May’s disastrous 2017 election – but it kept being revived across the next seven years. Why? Schools Week investigates …

Supplements, Turning the pages

A decade-long stumble to fair school funding

The national funding formula was well-supported and resolved a well-established problem – so how did it get severely stuck in the policy-making weeds? Schools Week finds out …

Supplements, Turning the pages

Curriculum reform: what grade should it get?

Nearly 15 years after Michael Gove’s curriculum reforms, England’s primary pupils rank among the best in the western world. Does that mean they’ve been a soaring success? It’s not that simple …

Supplements, Turning the pages

Academy commissioners: blooming flowers to ballooning bureaucracy

Academy commissioners were sold as the sector’s chance to ‘take back control’. But ten years on, that control has gone full circle back to Whitehall – mirroring a similar shift in academies. Schools Week investigates …

Supplements, Turning the pages

The special educational needs crisis goes mainstream

The 2014 SEND reforms promised to put children and parents ‘at the heart of the system’. Ten years later, youngsters are waiting years for support. Parents are left fighting in court to gain help. How did it all go so wrong?

Supplements, Turning the pages

Ofsted in crisis: The inspectorate’s fall from grace

Support for Ofsted slumped after inspections returned post-Covid. But why did it take the death of a headteacher to spark real change? Schools Week investigates …

Supplements, Turning the pages

Votes at 16: What can we learn from schools’ mock elections?

Our mock election shows community cohesion must be back on the agenda for schools whether 16-year-olds get the vote or not

Opinion, Opinion: Policy

SEND reforms a decade on: How it went wrong, and how to fix it

Schools Week speaks to experts and key decision-makers as system faces crisis 10 years after the children and families act

News, SEND

Tributes paid to ‘education giant’ Sir Tim Brighouse

One of the country’s most influential educators remembered as a ‘towering beacon of light’

News, Schools