Election 2024

Tory funding pledge could be ‘biggest cut in 50 years’, says IfS

Think tank says Sunak’s per-pupil funding ‘protection’ actually works out as a 6% reduction and would lead to job...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Conservatives manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

13 new policies include protecting school spending in real-terms and mandating phone bans guidance and PE hours

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Lib Dems manifesto 2024: All the schools policies

26 pledges include above-inflation school funding boosts, putting arts subjects in the EBacc and upping capital funding by £1.9bn

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Labour will convert ‘spare’ primary classrooms into 3,334 nurseries

Policy would cost around £140 million and create 100,000 childcare places, party says

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Village primary gets a second ‘golden ticket’ to deck out its new home

The small school has been handed the keys to a 400-capacity building after a planned free school was abandoned

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Birmingham withdraws schools from £100m IT system

Heads were unable to make financial plans as glitches left them waiting months to learn the size of their...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Leaders divided over Labour plan for Ofsted trust inspections

Labour wants Ofsted to inspect trusts as well as individual schools

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Recruitment and retention

Thousands of state teachers switch to private sector

More teachers have left state schools to work in the independent sector than vice versa in every year since...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Wellbeing

Friday afternoons off and a tea trolley: How one school is bucking the retention trend

School bans after-work meetings and finishes at 1.40pm on Fridays, allowing staff to jet off on city breaks

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey