Schools

Boosting teacher bursaries would have greater impact than raising pay

Research also finds those recruited off the back of bursaries were more likely to teach in schools which often...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Amy Walker
Politics

Prospects for career in teaching ‘never been better’, claims Gibb

Schools minister says free schools have 'liberated' the teaching profession and MATs let leaders advance earlier

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Funding mistake won’t rip up DfE staff reward voucher scheme

Department says it would be 'unfair to penalise junior staff' for funding gaffe

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Inside the first ‘education hackathon’

Gillian Keegan is determined artificial intelligence has its place in education. A ‘hackathon’ in London tried it out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

DfE cost-cutter told ‘unsafe’ school to slash £150k from staff spend

Resource management adviser was sent to school where Ofsted found 'lack of staff leaves pupils at imminent risk of...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

School support staff unions accept £1,925 pay deal

Pay deal will cost schools around £1bn, leaving budgets 'tight'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Sir Ian Bauckham appointed interim Ofqual chief

Current chair of the regulator to serve for 12 month period from January after Dr Jo Saxton departs for...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Tory donors leave Education Policy Institute board as election looms

Sir Paul Marshall and Lord Nash will step down as trustees of the think tank, as David Laws moves...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Just 1 in 6 schools commit to keep tutoring when cash runs out

Five key findings from Ofsted and NFER evaluations into government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker