Schools

DfE teacher jobs board to copy vacancies from trust websites

Free government service working with academy trusts to allow vacancies to be uploaded in bulk

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy launches teacher input survey

Arms-length curriculum body Oak, which faces a judicial review legal challenge, said views from the sector would help shape...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Academies

Academy could transfer to fourth trust in a decade

Figures obtained by Schools Week reveal more than 50 schools have been run by three different trusts

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

DfE plans to check pupil capacity in secondary schools

Local authorities could then use the updated numbers to force schools to take more pupils

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Sixth form college staff walk out in strike over pay

First national teacher strike in six years launches at post-16 settings as union continues ballot of school staff

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE pledges £21m to train educational psychologists

Ministers agree extension of current scheme which provides free doctorates for those who agree to work for councils

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted, SEND

Improving councils can get top SEND marks under new inspections

Ofsted amends new framework after complaints its proposals would 'set the bar too high'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

The ‘ticking time bomb’ leaving schools ‘liable to collapse’

Ministers urgently seek details about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), used widely in flat-roofed school buildings

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Politics

SEND review response coming ‘early’ next year, and 3 things we learned at education questions

Ministers faced questions from MPs in the House of Commons

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker