News

MPs’ stern warning over ‘incoherent’ system and costly, ‘risky’ academisation

A powerful committee of MPs has warned that the government failed to properly scrutinise the early stages of the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Still no sign of the delayed ‘healthy schools’ rating scheme

The government still doesn’t know when proposals for a ‘healthy schools’ rating scheme will come to fruition, 10 months...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

No teaching resources provided for National Democracy Week

Ministers have refused to discuss upcoming new resources to help secondary schools teach pupils about democracy – even though...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Troubled UCAT trust to shed four schools after finances warning

Four schools run by the troubled University of Chester Academies Trust (UCAT) will be rebrokered to new sponsors following...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
Opinion

Sex education reforms: can someone in the DfE give us a straight answer?

In Blackadder: Back and forth, our eponymous antihero runs into Shakespeare after an experiment with a time machine goes...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Grammar schools asked to prioritise poorest pupils

The body representing most of the country’s grammar school headteachers will encourage its members to “prioritise” the poorest pupils...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

DfE takes action to force schools to follow the ‘Baker Clause’

The Department for Education has begun to intervene in schools which fail in their legal duty to allow training...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE ‘looking at’ resilience measure for trainee teachers

A Bradford teacher-training organisation has reduced drop-out rates by screening applicants for their resilience. The wastage rate of teacher...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

On notice: 27 private schools warned by DfE

The government has made public 27 warning notices issued to private schools that failed to meet its independent school...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson