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‘LAURA MCINERNEY’

No money. No ideas. A year of pure political purgatory

Schools have been visited by the ghosts or Christmas past, present and future this year, writes Laura McInerney. It’s about time they had their happy ending It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Oh, who are we kidding? This year has been the political pits and there’s no pretending otherwise. […]

Opinion

Penny’s podcasts. 8 October, 2019

Penny Rabiger takes over our ‘blogs of the week’ slot once every half-term to point to the best of the education podcasts We are in Beta Podcast, with Niall Alcock Niall Alcock’s podcast series seeks to find the good news, learning and incredible stories from school leaders. Each week he quizzes them on the twists […]

Reviews

Half of teachers would move to a tougher school for a promotion or reduced timetable

Around half of teachers would consider moving to a tougher school if offered a promotion or timetable reduction, new research has found. The recruitment gap report, published by the Sutton Trust today, also found that more than half of teachers would want to see a “clearly enforced and effective behaviour policy” in place before moving […]

News

Interview: Robert Halfon, chair of the education select committee

When I ask Robert Halfon, the chair of the education committee, to name the witness that has affected him most, I’m expecting a big-hitter. Andreas Schleicher, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s education director, perhaps, or Chen Liang-gee, the Taiwanese science and technology minister? But instead he talks about Carlie Thomas, a senior caseworker […]

Features, Politics

MPs to investigate careers spending as quango gets more DfE funding

MPs will investigate whether careers funding is value for money after the government abandoned plans to make the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) pay for itself. Meg Hillier, the chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee, says it wants to look into the Department for Education’s careers spending, most of which goes to the CEC. […]

News

School keeps top grade despite failing emergency inspections

A private school is still rated ‘outstanding’ after failing emergency inspections that found pupils were not safe and some were unlawfully excluded. The Heathside preparatory school in north London, which charges up to £18,000 a year, got Ofsted’s top grade in September 2017. But just months later it failed two additional inspections on independent school […]

News

Julia Skinner’s top school governance blogs Jan 2019

It has been so good to see more governors starting to blog to share their opinions. More please! I’ve been a (wild) governor for many a year @ChrisChivers2 Chris Chivers will be known to many in education and on Twitter for his reflective approach, so it was great to read his take on governance. He […]

Reviews

Will allowing part-time teaching mean we run out of teachers?

Would more part-time and flexible working for teachers be a good or bad thing for teacher supply? Carole Willis looks at the data The teacher supply challenge in England’s secondary schools continues to grow. This week we launched our new report on teacher retention at an event chaired by journalist Laura McInerney. One of the key recommendations […]

Opinion

Ofsted accused of ‘conflicting signals’ over Barnsley school exclusions

Ofsted has been branded “contradictory” by school leaders after inspectors praised the strict behaviour policies of a school responsible for almost 40 per cent of temporary exclusions across a whole local authority. The Outwood Academy Shafton, in Barnsley, temporarily excluded nearly a quarter of its pupils last year, totalling almost 3,000 days’ worth of suspensions. […]

News