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Teachers wrongly told they’d failed to make pension payments

One teacher said the bungle caused a ‘great deal of upset and unnecessary worry’

Teenage boy arrested after teacher stabbing at Tewkesbury School

A Gloucestershire secondary school is in lockdown today, with education secretary Gillian Keegan ‘deeply concerned’ after incident

DfE sets up ‘call centre’ as RAAC survey snub ‘baffles’ ministers

But Barran can’t say whether addressing problems with potentially dangerous concrete will delay other rebuilds

Over 1 million children miss school because of Covid

More than a million children were absent from school last week because of Covid, new government data suggests. Department for Education attendance survey data shows around 1,050,500 pupils, or 14.3 per cent of the total pupil population were absent from state schools because of the virus last Thursday, up 25 per cent from 839,100, or […]

School drops sports course questioned by Ofsted

A Liverpool school has dropped a controversial sports science qualification that Ofsted said might not be in the pupils’ “best interests”. St Francis Xavier’s College, one of ten schools found not to be providing effective education during the pandemic, said it decided to drop the course before the inspectors’ visit. A monitoring inspection conducted in […]

England’s largest academy trust gives up struggling school

England’s biggest multi-academy trust is set to hand a struggling Leeds school to another chain, ending a seven-year effort to turn around its fortunes. United Learning will transfer John Smeaton Academy to The Gorse Academies Trust (TGAT) in September. Sir John Townsley, TGAT’s chief executive, told parents in a letter that pupils would benefit from […]

Coronavirus: Cumbria school becomes a hospital in two hours

A Cumbrian school has been converted into a makeshift hospital in just two hours, in what is thought to be the first use of a school for that purpose since the First World War. Installed with the help of the military and local public bodies, extra bed capacity at Furness Academy in Barrow will be […]

Investigation: Meet the head paid £260k to run one school

A single-school academy trust has upped the pay of its top executive to £260,000, making him one of the best-paid academy bosses in the country. It means that the pay of Colin Hall, listed as “head” of Holland Park School, west London, has doubled in seven years, despite a letter from the government in 2017 […]

TV series kicked us into action, says head

A headteacher from the BBC series School says she’s glad nothing was “glossed over” and credited the programme with having “galvanised” the school community. Angela Browne is head of the Castle School in south Gloucestershire, one of three secondaries run by the Castle School Education Trust and filmed for the BBC show over a year […]