Academy bosses are urging ministers to give them “clarity” over whether recently dumped trust growth funds will come back from the dead. Labour’s schools...
The white paper’s “experts at hand” plan is positive, while hints of reform for school performance measures echo the EPI’s feelings about current shortcomings,...
Kevan Collins has been appointed as the education secretary’s delivery adviser with a focus on SEND reform and reviewing how the department engages with...
The late Professor Eric Hawkins once said that in language education, “we are seeking to light fires of curiosity about the central human characteristic...
A government-funded speech and language screening initiative found an unexpected proportion of young children have unidentified needs, an evaluation report has said. The Early...
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...