Election 2024

Former schools minister Jacqui Smith returns to DfE in Lords role

Ex-home secretary will get a peerage and join Bridget Phillipson's team

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Who is Bridget Phillipson? 8 facts about the new education secretary

What we know about the minister handed the keys to the Department for Education

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academies: No MAT target, but mergers growing

Around one in five trusts which were running schools in 2019 are no longer in operation

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Election 2024

Election 2024: Education secretary Gillian Keegan loses her seat

Loss in Chichester to the Lib Dems comes amid disastrous night for the Tories

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Election 2024: ‘The British people have chosen change’ – Phillipson

Labour government will be powered by 'belief that tomorrow could not just be different from today, but better' says...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Key proposals from Schools Week’s manifesto for change 

Practical ideas from the sector's best and brightest

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Election 2024

Starmer cabinet would be most comprehensively educated ever 

More than 8 in 10 members of the shadow cabinet went to comprehensive schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Election 2024

Labour will ‘turn the tide’ on child poverty, says ex-PM Brown

Rayner also says issue will be 'responsibility of the whole cabinet' to resolve

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

Emergency capital cash handouts soar to £12m after funding squeeze

Funding for urgent work jumps 300% in 12 months, as experts warn figures are 'sign of the times'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson