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
Politics

‘Tough choices’ behind academy grant cut, and 5 other findings from education questions

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson and her ministers faced their second bout of questions in Parliament

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Laura Trott appointed shadow education secretary

MP for Sevenoaks and former chief secretary to the Treasury tapped by Kemi Badenoch to lead Conservative education team

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Revealed: The new education committee membership

11 MPs selected for influential committee that holds the Department for Education to account

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Politics

£700m spent on DfE’s hubs, but to what effect?

Around 1 in 25 schools nationally have offered support at some point as part of a hub

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Gullis suggests schools won’t employ him because he’s a former Tory MP

Unemployed ex-schools minister says ‘there's a lot of schools that will see who I used to represent … and...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey