From mid-October, parents choosing a secondary school for their child will for the first time have access to provisional GCSE exam results to help them finalise their choices.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas is campaigning for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) to be a statutory subject in all English state schools as it plays a ‘crucial part’ in education.
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned of ‘potentially high numbers of pupils’ disappearing from school registers in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets in East London.
Diane Rochford, executive head teacher of the John F. Kennedy School in East London, will oversee a new review into the best way to accurately assess pupils with low attainment.
The poorest children in the UK should be taught in primary schools from the age of two so that they can catch up with more advantaged classmates, says Ofsted chief inspector Michael Wilshaw.
Ofsted chief inspector Michael Wilshaw’s comments that one in four secondary heads are "not good enough" have been branded as "unhelpful as they are inaccurate’" by NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby.
As more evidence of a funding crisis surfaces, school leaders have warned that many schools may find themselves on the ‘brink of a financial collapse’.
Perry Beeches III free school has been placed in ‘special measures’ following a highly critical Ofsted report which witnessed underachieving students and ‘inadequate’ teaching.
The government has vowed to introduce a £50 million drive to implement more cadet units in state schools, as Chancellor George Osborne’s delivered the first fully-Conservative Budget in the House of Commons since 1996.
A report published by examination board AQA has suggested that schools risk ‘distorting’ learning as there is too much emphasis on exam results when it comes to assessing a schools performance.
Encouraging recently retired people to go into teaching could help to solve teacher shortages in key academic subjects, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has said.
