Performance tables

Skinners’ Academy, Hackney, was judged good in a short inspection in May 2017.

Inspectors said the...

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Ofsted chief, Amanda Spielman, published a ‘commentary on school funding’ this morning. But the blog, potentially embarrassing...

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The claim of ‘insufficient academic pupils’ is being used to explain missing exam scores from Harris academies in a recently...

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‘MAT performance data should not be used to infer performance of the MAT system as a whole,’ the Department for Education says...

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‘Scrapping exams at 16 would create a better education system,’ The Times editorial says today.

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

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

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The Children’s Commissioner’s briefing entitled ‘ The children leaving school with nothing’ published last week, is inaccurately...

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You would think the Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield would know better. She is, after all, supposed to be the advocate for...

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Should there be a rule preventing MPs from repeating questions that have already been adressed many times in the current...

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Could it be the Department for Education is using schools minister Nick Gibb as an Aunt Sally?

Only...

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Calls for the government to back down on the EBacc are likely to increase following a decision by the Russell Group universities...

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The launch of GCSEs back in 1984 was a ‘quiet revolution’, schools minister Nick Gibb wrote in today’s Times *. But it’s a...

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‘…there is no evidence from the attainment data that these [exam] reforms helped lower-attaining pupils,’ concludes Education Datalab in its...

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Geoff Barton, ASCL general secretary, attacked former education secretary Michael Gove at the union’s annual conference in...

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‘Inspirational and dedicated strategic leadership’ is provided by the chief executive officer, Dr Jennifer Blunden, at Truro and...

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Secondary schools which have been less than good for ten years or more tend to be those with a higher proportion of white...

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‘…studies of the impact of the academies programme show little difference between the performance of academies and local authority maintained...

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