SEND

Heads say SEND league tables won’t improve provision

Leaders' union warns the priority should be properly resourcing schools to deliver SEND provision

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Curriculum

Triple science pledge will require more specialist teachers, admits Phillipson

Experts say chronic science recruitment and staffing issues pose significant obstacle to triple science entitlement plan

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Reform council’s school transport cut call ‘Victorian’, says Phillipson

Phillipson rejects call to extend the distance children can be expected to make their own way to school

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School buildings

Estates strategy ‘very soon’: 6 findings from DfE grilling

Minister and senior mandarin quizzed on rebuilding delays, RAAC spending and 'older building' research

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Falling rolls

One in five teachers laid off in worst-hit falling roll areas

A fifth of maintained primaries could also fall into deficit, new research reveals, as union calls for 'additional support'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Free schools update ‘later this year’, and 3 other things we learned from ministers

The education secretary and her team answered MPs' questions in Parliament today

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Inequality

Working-class white kids ‘most resistant to transformative work by schools’

Boss of review probing the issue says leaders 'faced with intergenerational discontent'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Specialist MAT given notice to improve after seeking bailout

12-school trust said it had to ask for 'emergency' government cash after 'significant delays' to SEND and free school...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Teacher training

DfE swings axe on teacher training bursaries after recruitment pick-up

Cuts revealed for teacher training incentives in English, maths, biology, geography music, and languages - despite Labour's recruitment pledge

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks