Recruitment

Just half of secondary teacher recruitment target met

The secondary target has been missed 10 out of the last 11 years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Home education register plan ‘blocked’ from King’s Speech

Top DfE boss suggests long-promised plans for register of children not in school were put forward to become law...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

Keegan won’t set RAAC eradication deadline until the new year

Education secretary says she won't give 'definitive date' until all schools have been made safe, as number affected increases...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
PISA

PISA: Results show ‘significant de-emphasis’ on science – Spielman

While England's maths and reading scores had been improving, science results have fallen steadily since 2012

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
PISA

PISA 2022: ‘Reason for optimism’ but ‘job not done yet’, says Hinds

New schools minister praises 'huge amount achieved' by 'everybody involved in education'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
PISA

PISA 2022: Gibb hails ‘phenomenal success’ of ‘evidence-led’ reforms

Long-serving former schools minister says results show the Conservative government's reforms are 'here to last'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Failed contractor’s £45 million schools to be demolished and rebuilt

But one of the schools says work will take four years, as ministers take legal advice over recouping costs...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

Why is academy conversion suddenly so attractive again?

There are now 608 schools using the voluntary converter route to move out of local authority control

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Schools demand national campaign against abusive parents

More than a third of school staff report receiving verbal abuse from parents

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker