Schools

Measuring school disadvantage: a better way?

Researchers call for measures to look at how populated an area is rather than current 'crude' measures

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Free school meals

Proportion of poorer school pupils going on to university falls

Fall in the 'progression rate' of pupils eligible for free school meals is first since current records began in...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Disadvantage

DfE can’t show ‘value for money’ of £9.2bn disadvantage spend

Spending watchdog finds 'limited evidence' of how well almost half of funding to narrow attainment gap is used

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

School uniform rules have limited impact, poll suggests

Calls for further action as The Children's Society survey shows rising uniform costs and branded items still rife

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Starmer pledges ‘education system reform’, but few details yet

Labour leader promises long-term missions would end 'sticking-plaster politics', but union says more cash needed too

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Grammar Schools

£64m to make grammar schools more inclusive – but the gap widens

Despite pandemic surge in free school meals rates, grammars given expansion cash have fallen further behind

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

How schools can reverse Gypsy and Roma under-achievement

MPs are investigating why Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children have the worst exclusion and attainment rates

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Education Reform

Speed read: ASCL’s blueprint to tackle education’s ‘entrenched injustice’

The school leaders’ union wants wide-ranging reforms, warning studies suggest rich-poor attainment gap ‘may never close’.

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Leading academy CEOs demand £5.8bn catch-up cash for poorer pupils

A group of leading academy trust bosses have set out proposals for a £5.8 billion Covid recovery plan, as...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger