Funding

‘Savings platform’ plan to help schools get better reserve returns

Government thinks vision will ease school funding woes by 'unlocking' the sector's 'substantial reserves'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Appoint staff contact for uniform issues, schools told

New guidance also suggests rules banning 'visible logos' on PE kit to reduce 'pressure to wear designer gear'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

‘The best-kept secret in education’: Hobby on his new TKAT vocation

Halfway through his tour of the trust’s 45 schools, Hobby reveals what challenges await him in his new role

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Curriculum

Triple science pledge will require more specialist teachers, admits Phillipson

Experts say chronic science recruitment and staffing issues pose significant obstacle to triple science entitlement plan

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School buildings

Estates strategy ‘very soon’: 6 findings from DfE grilling

Minister and senior mandarin quizzed on rebuilding delays, RAAC spending and 'older building' research

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Falling rolls

One in five teachers laid off in worst-hit falling roll areas

A fifth of maintained primaries could also fall into deficit, new research reveals, as union calls for 'additional support'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Free schools update ‘later this year’, and 3 other things we learned from ministers

The education secretary and her team answered MPs' questions in Parliament today

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Jack Dyson
Inequality

Working-class white kids ‘most resistant to transformative work by schools’

Boss of review probing the issue says leaders 'faced with intergenerational discontent'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Edtech

AI questions to be trialled in SATs moderator tests

Government launches trial in bid to cut costs and school workload, amid push to 'harness the power of AI'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson