Politics

Inside the battle to shape the Labour party’s education reforms

The party's latest report has prompted heated debate between so-called 'progressives' and 'traditionalists'

Freddie Whittaker
Donna Ferguson
Covid

‘Don’t call us ghost children’: The vulnerable families who fear school return

Push to get children back to the classroom leaves families with severe health conditions feeling their needs are not...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

Teach First misses recruitment target as top graduate pay soars

Provider tasked with attracting high-flying graduates calls for £5k recruitment bonus for teachers who work in deprived areas

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

‘Galling’ pay-offs for DfE ministers on the political merry-go-round

Ten ministers who resigned or were sacked are due nearly £110,000 in pay-offs

John Dickens
John Dickens
Academies

Revealed: DfE’s ‘cluster takeover’ plan to boost big academy trusts

Officials draw up proposals to help leading trusts expand into new regions

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

What will become of the endangered ‘Tory teacher’?

‘The Conservatives must return to being the party of social justice’

Freddie Whittaker
Donna Ferguson
Opinion

Pre-pandemic school standards won’t return as quickly as we’d like

Schools are weathering the storm better than some public services, but a lack of funding will slow recovery

Freddie Whittaker
Philip Nye
Exams

More school leavers without university places after exams return

Heads demand better-funded careers advice after official figures show 40,000 applicants were still without a place in mid-September

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker

The Future of Assessment

A free FE Week and Schools Week supplement in partnership with NCFE, diving into assessment reform

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