Politics

Familiar face returns to DfE schools adviser role

Teacher training reforms architect back at the DfE after eight-month stint at University of Exeter

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Munira Wilson, Lib Dem education spokesperson

Munira Wilson, the MP for Twickenham and since 2021 the Lib Dems’ spokesperson for education, proudly describes the party...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
SEND

‘Enough is enough’: Special schools’ devastating budgets revealed 

Nearly nine in ten special schools are forecasting a budget deficit over the next two years

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

How schools became the frontline against hunger

Surveys show the number of teachers who receive food parcels has also rocketed

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Tutoring

Ministers abandon hope of Johnson’s six million tutoring target

Subsidy change means schools will fork out less for tutoring next year, but half as many courses will be...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy will allow commercial use of its lessons

Move allows schools to adapt resources and share outside their organisation, but U-turn on geo-restriction plans

John Dickens
John Dickens
Academies

Unusual trust job ad seeks ‘Curmudgeonly Eccentric Oddball’

Special school MAT admits it is 'not entirely sure' what the CEO role entails

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School buildings

School building condition data will be published this term, says Gibb

Pledge comes almost four years after landmark survey of schools was completed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Unison ballots 140,000 school support staff for strike

Vote over councils' £1,925 pay offer raises prospect of even greater disruption to schools this autumn

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker