Academies

Funding cut may force trusts to scrap expansion plans

Warning made as trusts left up to £100,000 out of pocket after government scrapped capacity funding

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Exams

EPI calls for review of phonics screening check

Researchers argue there's 'no evidence' the checks led to improved outcomes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Judging schools on middle-class admissions isn’t even possible, says Ofsted

Official also says the watchdog will draw on its off-rolling clampdown as it develops inclusivity checks

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Education policy

New institute hopes to inform and reform policy-making

Body set up by leading education experts wants to take classroom evidence revolution into national policy making

John Dickens
John Dickens
Regions group

Intervention model for regional improvement teams revealed

New teams will RAG rate schools for support, draw up 'local area priorities' and use councils for help

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

‘Tough choices’ behind academy grant cut, and 5 other findings from education questions

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson and her ministers faced their second bout of questions in Parliament

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Laura Trott appointed shadow education secretary

MP for Sevenoaks and former chief secretary to the Treasury tapped by Kemi Badenoch to lead Conservative education team

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Career guidance

School absence epidemic gives Labour a NEET problem

Kids dropping out of the school system are now turning into NEETs, and there’s not enough lower-level provision in...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

Revealed: The 125 leaders in the running for CST policy group

The elected group will draw on leaders from across England and give feedback on policy issues facing academies

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson