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
Academies

The schools that fought off academy orders

Ministers have U-turned on forced academisation more than 50 times since 2016

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

CEO’s mission to make AI a force for good in classrooms

Priya Lakhani is at pains to express how many of the achievements in her colourful career were driven by...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
SEND review

SEND contextual league tables plan shelved

DfE claims proposals had 'mixed feedback', with concerns it could 'risk generating perverse incentives'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Oak founders abandon national academy

At least seven of Oak’s original 11 trust curriculum partners have snubbed the new quango by choosing not to...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth