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

Phillipson: We’ll introduce teacher pay ‘floor – but no ceiling’

Education secretary says academies will retain ability to pay staff more, despite having freedoms revoked

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

Schools bill: All 39 proposed policies (and when they’ll start)

A comprehensive list of EVERY policy in Labour's children's wellbeing and schools bill

John Dickens
John Dickens
Politics

Government will publish new academy compliance orders

Department for Education says new directions for trusts breaking rules will be made public

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter