Teacher training

Teacher training ‘fragmented’ as reforms leave cold spots

Research finds some areas collaborate on CPD and through hubs, while others are 'balkanised'

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Ofsted

Revealed: ‘Unethical’ Ofsted ‘alerts’ tip off schools about inspections

Investigation exposes loophole in Ofsted inspection system which is supposed to give just a day's notice

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Academy body role on Ofsted recruitment panel criticised

Confederation of School Trusts head will advise on the appointment of the next chief inspector

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Inside today’s bananas world of sex ed, with Matilda Lawrence-Jubb

In the new world of Andrew Tate, hardcore pornography and rape culture, sex education is very different to the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Ofsted

Labour’s Ofsted plans ‘logical evolution’, says Spielman

Chief inspector says it's 'completely rational for a potential alternative government to be thinking about things like this'

Freddie Whittaker
Billy Camden and Freddie Whittaker
Academies

The academy trust CEO pay outliers

Most trusts under government scrutiny froze or slashed pay last year – but others handed out significant rises

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Politics, Schools

Budget 2023: Hunt wants all primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ childcare

New 'ambition' that all children are able to access 8am to 6pm childcare provision in school by 2026, but...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Strikes: DfE ups the ante with warning teachers could miss a deal

Unions fear divide and conquer approach after general secretaries are called-in separately

Freddie Whittaker
John Dickens and Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Advantage chief executive joins behaviour advisory group

Led by behaviour tsar Tom Bennett, behaviour hubs train schools to better tackle classroom disruption.

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth