More than 2,000 new schools must be built within the next four years to accommodate the rising number of pupils in England, according to Scape Group’s ‘School Places Challenge’ report.
Students believe that using their mobile device at night after going to bed is affecting their school work, according to new research conducted by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) in partnership with Digital Awareness UK (DAUK).
There are ‘alarming discrepancies’ in the monitoring of air pollution outside schools by local authorities, according to the British Lung Foundation (BLF).
Theresa May is right to focus on helping the poorest pupils in English schools but has the ‘wrong tools’ to get the job done, according to the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).
The £60 million 'opportunity areas' initiative will see local partnerships formed with early years providers, schools, colleges, businesses, charities and councils
A new initiative between state and independent schools and the government has been announced, which aims to train a ‘new generation’ of ‘expert’ language teachers.
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has warned that plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools in England ‘may improve social mobility for a very small number of disadvantaged children, but not for the vast majority’.
Addressing the government’s ‘Schools that work for everyone’ green paper for the first time, Mike Buchanan, the chair of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC), has stressed that ‘coercion is unnecessary’ to encourage independent schools to work with the state sector.
