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

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 ...

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

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

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

The government has abandoned a plan to abolish a rule capping the proportion of pupils oversubscribed free schools can select based on faith at 50 per cent and remove the block on new faith special ...

Teachers and leaders have roundly criticised new Ofsted report cards – but parents are much more supportive of the proposed changes. A poll of more than 800 parents by non-profit More in Common, ...

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed four new non-executive board members to serve for the next three years.

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

The government will spend £2 million on a “writing framework” to “articulate a common approach to teaching”, as well as reading and writing professional development and a fund for secondary resources.

Referrals to the government’s anti-terrorism Prevent scheme for young people will be “routinely” escalated so more vulnerable youngsters get support. A rapid learning review of the programme comes ...