BAMEed will launch in January with the aim of encouraging more black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates into teaching and leadership roles, Schools Week has reported.

A report has suggested English school’s will need up to 19,000 more school leaders by 2022 unless more teachers and leaders are supported to take on these roles.

Attainment in UK schools among disadvantaged pupils varies dramatically between different ethnicities, with white working class boys achieving the

Official figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) have revealed that over 800 schools are set to be labelled as ‘coasting’ under provisional Progress 8 measures.

Head teachers in Oxford have warned that schools in the area could be forced to cut staff and drop subjects due to a lack of funding.

Responding to criticisms of the government’s plans to open new grammar schools, School Standards Minister Nick Gibb has claimed that establishing a ‘tutor proof’ 11-plus test is the ‘holy grail’.

Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, has challenged the Department for Education (DfE) to improve the financial management of academies.

Backbench Labour MPs have criticised the government’s plans to open new grammar schools, claiming they are based on ‘flimsy evidence’ in a debate i

162 suspected illegal schools were investigated by Ofsted last year.

The Oracy Network has been set up as a campaign group calling for extra training and support to help teachers develop pupils’ speaking skills

Heads from every state secondary school in Surrey have signed a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May expressing their opposition to more grammar schools

Teaching assistants in County Durham are protesting against proposals that would see them only paid during term time.

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