Politics

Labour cost-cutting spree now hits STEM

Science teacher training and physics take-up programmes cut despite Starmer’s pledge to make England an AI ‘superpower’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

Phillipson’s first education committee: 8 things we learned

Reforming the national funding formula, international SEND solutions and admissions interventions all on the agenda

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Politics

Children’s wellbeing and schools bill: Committee calls for evidence

Intense lobbying expected as bill seeks to curtail academy freedoms

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Phillipson faces first education committee grilling

Education secretary set to be questioned by MPs over SEND, wellbeing bill and private school fees

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

Labour scraps computing hubs, with languages scheme scaled back

Just three of the Conservatives’ subject hub programmes will remain as Labour said it is taking 'difficult decisions'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Politics

Mary Bousted and Anne Longfield made peers by Labour

The pair will sit in the House of Lords after being nominated for peerages by the Labour party

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Politics

Sir Kevan Collins interview: ‘We’re making MATs accountable’

England's school system has 'practice we should be proud of', but 'pockets that we should be ashamed of', says...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Politics

Labour reviewing all of Eton’s proposed ‘elite’ state schools

Planned sixth forms in Dudley, Teeside and Oldham are part of a review of whether 44 free schools offer value...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Phillipson puts pupil happiness, wellbeing and inclusion at centre of first sector speech

Education secretary says while exam results 'open important doors, A*s alone don't set young people up for a healthy...

John Dickens
John Dickens