School buildings

Trusts lack building condition data despite DfE survey, cost-cutters find

Capital advisers programme will be expanded following positive feedback and after trusts predict savings

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment and retention

Teachers’ home working ‘masks’ true workload challenge

Most leaders have not read government workload reduction toolkit, and just 1 in 10 found it 'useful'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Schools should have SENCo-style role to support young carers

Report warns pupils with caring responsibilities are not being properly identified by schools

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Nick Gibb: Schools minister’s resignation letter – in full

'My passion for ensuring that every child gets the best possible education will remain with me until my dying...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Has Nick Gibb won the education battle?

The schools minister backs traditional teaching methods. But do they actually improve results? Schools Week investigates

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

How we were stopped from revealing SEND consultants’ pay

Transparency campaigners cry foul as threat of injunction and massive costs prevents public interest reporting

Freddie Whittaker
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
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