Conservative

02.11.19 by

Proposals for new free schools have to include an impact assessment. These estimate the likely effect of the new provision on...

School types, Free schools

02.11.19 by

The International Academy of Greenwich (IAG), a free school opened in September 2016, has announced its closure.

School types, Free schools

30.10.19 by

The new Progress 8 measure helps parents choose the ‘right [secondary] school for their child’, writes the Department for Education. It’s media...

Policy, Conservative

29.10.19 by

There’s an ‘urgent need’ to restore confidence in the system which supports provision for children and young people with special...

Policy, Conservative

29.10.19 by

The annual round for academy trusts to bid for funding from the Condition Improvement Fund opened yesterday, the Department for...

Academies, Policy

26.10.19 by

UK journalists have been sucked into ‘Johnsons fake news machine’, writes Peter Oborne in an Open Democracy article . He claims...

Policy, Conservative

25.10.19 by

Personnel in the Department for Education’s PR section must be getting hoarse judging by the number of times the £14m funding...

Policy, Conservative

24.10.19 by

T-levels, the Level Three technical equivalent to A levels, are presented as the ‘technical gold standard’ by the government....

Policy, Conservative

24.10.19 by

Baroness Barron, like many Conservatives, thinks the recently-announced £14bn extra investment in education in England, is a...

Policy, Conservative

23.10.19 by

The SEND reforms of 2014 were right: they put children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)...

Teaching, Policy

16.10.19 by

£200k was paid by the Department for Education to Deloitte to wind up the notorious Wakefield City Academies Trust , BBC’s...

School types, Academies

15.10.19 by

‘I believe passionately that talent, skill & genius is distributed uniformly across the UK, but opportunity is not...

Teaching, Grammar schools

05.10.19 by

‘Severe delays’ in issuing Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (...

Policy, Conservative

02.10.19 by

‘The biggest funding boost for schools in a decade,’ is the headline on the latest propaganda from the Department for Education...

Policy, Conservative

01.10.19 by

The Conservatives have ‘an incredible story to tell…’ said education secretary Gavin Williamson at the party conference...

Policy, Conservative

01.10.19 by

'We’ve got a branding problem with the free schools programme,’ Unity Howard, the director of the New Schools Network, told a...

School types, Free schools

27.09.19 by

Free schools had ‘particular success’ in key stage 1 Assessments, says schools minister Nick Gibb in the Department for...

Policy, Conservative

26.09.19 by

This site’s being saying it for years: reforms to state education in England introduced by Michael Gove are a retrograde step...

Teaching, School culture