News

Greening wants trainee teachers to experience more school placements

School Direct teacher training “needs to be longer” if trainees are to get the experience across different schools that...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Academics petition education secretary over 48-hour research publication rule

Academics and journalists are mobilising to fight a government diktat which means they must now send any research based...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Greening’s first education questions: Green paper ‘will help’ SEN pupils, and four other things we learned

The government’s new(ish) education team faced its first proper grilling in Parliament this afternoon during the first education questions since...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

The mystery of the disappearing education secretary

As another party conference season ebbs away, this is usually the part where I write a column about the...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

£60m opportunity areas may not stop cash shortfalls

Schools in Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough and West Somerset will receive extra money and support from the government...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Government ‘taking forward’ academies white paper, Greening confirms

The government remains committed to the idea of all schools becoming academies and is “pulling together” legislation to enact...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Justine Greening linked to 63 schools closed by Uganda government

A firm running “low cost” private schools in Africa, financially backed by an investment scheme launched by Justine Greening while...

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
News

Gibb becomes ‘school standards’ minister in DfE reshuffle

A shake-up of ministerial roles at the Department for Education has been announced, with some interesting changes following the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

School leaders warn of more redundancies in wake of funding formula delay

Schools face making more redundancies and multi-academy trusts will be hampered from taking over struggling schools, education leaders have...

John Dickens
John Dickens