The schools bill, the creation of local school improvement teams and Ofsted reform are all welcome steps in the government’s ...

The country’s biggest academy trusts now extract £200 million from their schools’ budgets to fund growing central teams.

Plans to grade schools on up to 11 areas will make Ofsted’s “inability to accurately capture the complexity of a school far ...

The consequences are predictable. Mainstream schools will struggle further with standards (particularly for children with SEND). There will be an increase in violence and disruption. More teachers and ...

Whereas Such’s aim with his first book was to give a bird’s eye view of the reading landscape, allowing people to make their ...

School leaders have lambasted new Ofsted inspection toolkits as “cobbled together” and “a nonsense”. Under plans for new report cards, schools would be rated one of five, colour-coded judgments: ...

Sir Ian Bauckham has been confirmed as the permanent chief regulator of exams watchdog Ofqual, the education secretary has ...

Education Mutual, run by Nick Hurn, the chief executive of the Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust (BWCT), offers staff ...

One clear positive from a reliability and consistency perspective is that ungraded inspections will no longer take place from ...

The government has admitted schools bill proposals to hand more power over admissions to councils 'could limit the ability of ...

Ofsted has launched a consultation on plans to reform its inspection framework and introduce new 'report cards' ...

Academy trusts could be on the verge of going bust, a major report has warned, with even the biggest MATs taking a financial ...