Government will explore “whether we should be developing more formative assessments around oracy”, the schools minister has said. Georgia Gould also said the aim...
Journalists are being banned from conferences where ministers, senior government civil servants and advisers are slated to speak. Three events in recent weeks have...
Government SEND reforms don’t go far enough to force health services to deliver support, experts have warned. MPs warned ministers last year the health...
Ofsted has refuted claims that its new report cards are being written using AI, following concerns over “generic” wording. An investigation revealed the same...
Every primary school publishes a pupil premium strategy. Inspectors read them. Governors scrutinise them. Leaders devote hours to drafting and updating them. But are...
More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, exposing a “significant gap” in its...
Flexible working is increasingly common in many workplaces. But the adoption of flexible practices in schools has been slow and patchy. For many leaders,...
The government has named the remaining 36 lead schools for its behaviour and attendance hubs programme, completing the list of 93 settings that will...
Following breakdowns in relationships between schools and parents, Victoria Hatton suggests policy and legal changes from government that could rebuild cohesion It’s time we...
England’s best-paid academy boss has been given another pay rise, taking his salary to at least £530,000. Harris Federation chief Sir Dan Moynihan took...
Ministers have said schools should only suspend pupils in the most serious cases of poor behaviour and violence, as the Department for Education looks...