There is clearly a gulf between the ambition of the curriculum review committee led by Professor Becky Francis, and the ...

Bringing back ideas on areas including curriculum sequencing and literacy routines strengthens practice in the home school.

Suspensions are rising. More pupils are out of school. The SEND system is in crisis. And everyone is rightly calling for “inclusive schools”. But we avoid the elephant in the room – fragmentation – ...

One of the biggest academy trusts fell foul of a “historic fraud” over a number of years. Star Academies, which runs 36 schools, uncovered the “significant financial irregularity” last year.

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 ...

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 of [finding] matching organisations”. Advisers are also “more confident ...

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 ...

Screens incrementally take up more of children’s time than they did a couple of decades ago, when they barely existed. One in ...

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.

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

The prominent boss of a troubled academy trust saddled with a multi-million-pound deficit has resigned following a leave of absence. Schools Week previously revealed how the Arthu ...

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