News

DfE hires grammar school critic as head of strategy and social mobility

The Department for Education has appointed Emran Mian, the director of the Social Market Foundation think tank and a...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Carter: £140m funding pot shows shift from ‘mass conversion to mass improvement’

Sir David Carter, the national schools commissioner, has said the new £140 million strategic school improvement fund proves the government’s...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Schools can get £5k for getting ‘returner teachers’ back into classrooms

The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has launched another pilot to try to encourage qualified teachers back...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

DfE insists it can spot bogus grammar survey responses

The government has insisted safeguards are in place to deal with bogus replies to its grammar school consultation after...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Drop in trainee teachers, and 4 other key findings from ITT data

The Department for Education has released provisional figures for the number of trainee teachers recruited for this academic year....

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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