Opinion

To parents, thriving children are more important than the academies debate

'Most of the parents we spoke to were not only uninterested, but frankly unaware of what academisation means'

Freddie Whittaker
Meg Price
Politics

Unions get green-light to challenge ‘strike-breaking’ law in court

Judicial reviews brought by the TUC, NASUWT and Unison will be heard in March

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted annual report 2021-22: 11 things we learned

Watchdog issues warnings over uninspected schools, part-time timetables and its lack of powers over 'chaotic' and 'unsafe' illegal schools

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Teacher training

Teacher training: DfE to scrap school direct fee-funded route

Ministers are also considering rolling the school direct salaried route into their postgrad teaching apprenticeship

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

MP: Ofsted sent ‘rogue hit squad’ to my child’s school

Philip Hollobone claimed the team sent to inspect Bishop Stopford School had a 'prearranged agenda'

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Free school meals change could add thousands to schools’ incomes

Leaders urged to help children previously ineligible due to their parents' immigration status register for support

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted and DfE criticised over lack of data on child sexual abuse

MP fears lack of records will mean 'important patterns and opportunities to introduce improved safeguarding' being missed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Holland Park parents and NEU lose legal bid to block school transfer

Holland Park School's failed High Court claim against the DfE paves the way for it to join United Learning

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
SEND

SEND tribunal appeals top 10,000 for the first time

In the past academic year, 11,052 SEND appeals were registered – a 29 per cent rise from 8,579 the...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth