Schools Week2d
Pupils have ‘poor’ climate change understanding, says DfE study
The DfE survey found concepts such as net zero and the 1.5°C and 2°C climate change goals are “very poorly understood”. The ...
Schools Week7d
Is Ofsted right to fear the rise of flexi-schooling?
A March 2022 inspection at Huxley found full-time pupils were “disadvantaged” by the fact other pupils were being ...
Schools Week5d
Schools face ‘significant disruption’ as government culls Latin scheme
Thousands of secondary pupils are facing “significant disruption” after the government scrapped its state school Latin ...
Schools Week4d
Children’s wellbeing and schools bill: the 15 key policies
The proposed children’s wellbeing and schools bill would give ministers a new legal power to intervene where academy trusts ...
Schools Week7d
Loss of academy freedoms could harm improvement of toughest schools – CST boss
In a briefing for CST members, seen by Schools Week, Cruddas said seeing the detail of the bill would be “essential”, but ...
Schools Week8d
Children’s wellbeing bill to enact sweeping academies reform
When first announced at the King’s Speech, the then “children’s wellbeing bill” was set to enact a range of reforms pledged ...
Schools Week4d
Ofsted to trial ‘new inspection approach’ in January
Trials for a “new approach” to inspections will start in the first week of next term, Ofsted has announced as it ploughs ...
Schools Week4d
Education committee SEND inquiry to focus on solutions
A major new parliamentary inquiry has been launched in a bid to find new solutions to the growing crisis in special ...
Schools Week3d
Governance is key to improvement. Simples.
What could be transformative is the introduction of regional improvement (or RISE) teams. These signal a shift toward more ...
Schools Week5d
Government will publish new academy compliance orders
The government has said it will publish new academy compliance orders which it plans to issue to trusts breaking rules around ...
Schools Week13d
Teacher recruitment could be worse than it looks, DfE suggests
Abysmal teacher recruitment data may be under-stating the challenge, the government has suggested, given “underperformance” ...
Schools Week5d
Councils kept waiting on key SEND deficit ‘override’ decision
The LGA has called for 'urgent' government reform of the SEND system after promised clarity for councils on the brink of ...