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...
New national inclusion base peer networks are being launched to help schools share expertise in setting up provision for pupils with SEND. The Department...
This week’s movers and shakers include a kinship carer, an air skiier and a former The Apprentice hopeful. This column is our fortnightly guide to who...
Most behind-closed-doors meetings that once analysed plans for the future of schools have already been canned, Schools Week can reveal, as ministers prepare to scrap the...
The education secretary is unsurprised by criticism of proposed SEND reforms from “vested interests” and lawyers who profit from “exploiting parents”. The government’s plans...
Prominent academy trust bosses Becks Boomer-Clark and Lesley Powell will lead the government’s push to improve children’s transition into secondary school. The CEOs –...
Ofsted has announced a new way of recruiting “groups” of school and college leaders to work as part-time inspectors, in a bid to make inspections “more...
Uncertainty about the affordability of future pay rises will cast “a cloud” as school leaders gather for the ASCL annual conference, its general secretary...
The head of Ofsted believes the fact that it issues more ‘needs attention’ grades than ‘requires improvement’ is evidence that the watchdog is raising...
School and college staff need continuous specialist training to “better understand and respond to the needs of children in care”, Ofsted has said. Research...