Schools

7 NFER stats revealing how abysmal teacher recruitment is getting worse

New report shows primary applications have plunged, with 14 of 17 secondary subjects on track to underrecruit

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Ofsted inspection to go ahead after headteacher planned boycott

Three education unions have now called for Ofsted to pause inspections following the death of Ruth Perry

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher strikes

Teacher pay strike savings to fund iPads and energy bills

Schools and trusts plan to reinvest £128m windfall from salary deductions in their workforce

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Inside today’s bananas world of sex ed, with Matilda Lawrence-Jubb

In the new world of Andrew Tate, hardcore pornography and rape culture, sex education is very different to the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group

Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

The schools that fought off academy orders

Ministers have U-turned on forced academisation more than 50 times since 2016

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Home Office U-turn on blasphemy guidance

Department now 'looking to draft new guidance' after Quran incident

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SEND review

SEND contextual league tables plan shelved

DfE claims proposals had 'mixed feedback', with concerns it could 'risk generating perverse incentives'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth