Unfair barriers” stop teachers advancing to the upper pay range, a report has warned, as school staff reported goalposts “shifting all the time”. In England, pay scales f ...

A government-funded speech and language screening initiative found an unexpected proportion of young children have ...

More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, ...

The government has named the remaining 36 lead schools for its behaviour and attendance hubs programme, completing the list of 93 settings that will lead its work across England. The Department for ...

Ofsted has now admitted the “generic wording” and said it is “working to make sure … more bespoke language” is used “that ...

The government should align the legislative, regulatory and best practice frameworks for maintained schools and academies.

Ministers have said schools should only suspend pupils in the most serious cases of poor behaviour and violence, as the ...

The number of absence fines issued to parents has levelled out following a post-Covid surge, but it still remains nearly 50 per cent above pre-pandemic levels. Department for Education figures ...

While it has not become an automatic right, the bar for refusing a request has been raised, and schools that fail to adapt ...

Ofsted has found “no evidence” to substantiate concerns about political impartiality at a school that postponed the visit of ...

The ERGs showed “organisations with effective governance are better prepared” for Ofsted visits. They are “more able to ...

Our own peer reviews are led by recently-retired CEOs of effective trusts, supported by trained peers from leadership, ...