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
Ofsted

Ofsted: Trusts ‘not convinced’ judgments are ‘appropriate or optimal’

CST tells Ofsted's Big Listen that a separate safeguarding judgment may have 'merit', but warns against rushed move to...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Big Listen: Ofsted must embrace ‘far-reaching reform’, say leaders

Ofsted 'still has a long way to go to restore credibility', union bosses tell watchdog's consultation

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Profile

Seema Malhotra, Labour’s shadow skills minister

If Labour wins power, it will unleash a “skills revolution” by revamping school curriculums and building more bridges between...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill