The DfE stressed it is “has learned a lot” from the first phase of the programme and is in a “much better place now in terms ...

One of England’s first private finance initiative (PFI) schools struck a secret deal for taxpayers to cover a £1 million ...

The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the deficits on ...

Screens incrementally take up more of children’s time than they did a couple of decades ago, when they barely existed. One in four children finish primary school obese, so let’s take a bet that ...

The House of Lords is gearing up for a showdown with MPs over academy admissions and school phone bans, after peers passed a slew of Conservative amendments to the government’s landmark schools bill.

On current trends, thousands of schools currently rated ‘good’ are likely to fall into this category. It won’t please them. According to Ofsted’s rubric, the next grade up, ‘strong standard’, marks ...

AP governance demands clarity of accountability, not performative oversight. Boards need to understand precisely where ...

Stephen Kingdom, the DfE’s deputy director of SEND in 2014, said the last reforms mainly reflected problems with the “school ...

School nurseries lack the staff, space or demand to offer more wraparound, holiday or pre-school childcare, particularly in ...

While suspensions have increased by a fifth in recent years, just one per cent of 5,020 teachers polled recently by Teacher ...

A recruitment agency is reviewing its adverts after coming under fire for offering schools free outsourced applications for ...

A two-year run of cash-strapped academy trusts eating into their reserves has come to an end, with the largest MATs recording ...