The government’s new schools bill will dominate education policymaking for the next few years, before changes start to feed into classrooms across the country...
Teachers should be given powers to sanction parents who fail to engage in efforts to halt the “rising epidemic of disruptive and dangerous behaviour”...
Clarity is needed over the future of a mechanism currently keeping SEND deficits from bankrupting councils, a government adviser has warned, adding its impending...
The new government should use falling pupil numbers to boost funding for the worst-off pupils, the Education Policy Institute has said. A report from...
Bridget Phillipson was appointed education secretary in July following Labour’s landslide general election victory. She spoke to Schools Week deputy and political editor Freddie...
The government’s first budget brought some good news for schools, with funding allocated to roll out free breakfast clubs to hundreds of primary schools...
Up to 20,000 more pupils’ data may have been stolen in a cyber-attack on the government outsourcer Capita. Schools Week previously revealed how 30,000...
Academy trusts have been left up to £100,000 out of pocket following the government’s sudden decision to scrap capacity funding – with fears expansion...
Teachers feel “disempowered and deprofessionalised by overstipulation and the challenge to cover content” in the curriculum, Professor Becky Francis has said as she outlined...
The government could better support disadvantaged pupils if its intervention criteria included how heavily populated an area is, instead of the “crude” current measure...