Politics

Trusts work up contingency plans for sixth form college teacher strike

It comes as a heads' union also balloting members said it did not 'envisage' asking them to close schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Minister admits ‘transparency’ needed over academy transfers and conversion

MATs and academy-sceptics alike are likely to welcome more transparency about why schools get transferred to particular trusts

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

UTC chief eyes new institutions and wants ‘sleeves’ in secondary schools

‘The latest evidence points to us going in the right direction’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Academies

Swedish for-profit free school experiment fails to make grade

Provider of state-funded private schools that inspired Michael Gove withdraws from UK market and its only school in England

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Grammar school ordered to pay back £1.5m in overclaimed maintenance cash

Single-academy trust 'knowingly took decisions to utilise funding on works beyond the scope of the approved bids', probe finds

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Guidance on supporting trans children in schools: 7 key findings

Unofficial guidance from unions and sector bodies aims to help schools meet their legal duties while supporting trans children

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academy trusts

‘Our students leave with the powerful knowledge they can challenge the elite’

Luke Sparkes, the new chief executive of Dixons Academies Trust, talks John Dickens through expansion plans, why university-for-all is...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Politics

Ministers quietly abandon promised teacher retention policies

Sabbaticals pilot among schemes pledged in recruitment and retention strategy which have been dropped

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Tutoring

Treasury to claw back ‘staggering’ £100m+ of unspent tutoring cash

Underspend could equate to a sixth of catch-up cash last year, as DfE survey shows falling subsidies put schools...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker