News

Thanks? No thanks: Why only 1 teacher received a thank you letter from the education secretary

The government has written one thank-you letter to a retired teacher in the past four years, despite launching a...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

“Post-truth” politics & the grammar debate: How schools will be dragged into the fray

Official statistics show there are more than 14 million parents with dependent children in the UK. About 12 million...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Justine Greening holds up findings of the Teachers Working Longer Review

A group of educationists scrutinising the consequences of teachers working until their late 60s expect their interim findings to...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Landmark judicial review over school commissioner sixth form decision settled out of court

A landmark judicial review that was set to shine a light on decisions made behind closed doors by regional...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

DfE refuses to release pupil nationality data agreement

The government has refused to release a new agreement that prevents the Department for Education from passing pupil nationality...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Academics petition education secretary over 48-hour research publication rule

Academics and journalists are mobilising to fight a government diktat which means they must now send any research based...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Academics must show research to government two days before publishing, say new DfE rules

Academics and journalists have been ordered to give civil servants two days to look over any research they plan...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

DfE ‘drags its feet’ on academies report

Ministers have been accused of dragging their feet over the publication of a key academies document that will reveal...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

DfE faces legal battle over RSC’s decision

The government has been warned that it is vulnerable to further legal action over a lack of “structure and...

John Dickens
John Dickens