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Jewish pupils face ‘regular and hostile abuse’
Former Ofsted chief highlights the ‘extraordinary’ security measures required in Jewish faith schools as he reveals the interim findings from his review into antisemitism in education settings
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Are school faculties only good for saving money?
New research finds teachers' views of faculties are ‘damning’, sparking call for schools to ‘revert to subject-based leadership’
Sats 2022: Call for ‘thorough review’ amid fears about marking
Exclusive: Heads urge government to review the operation of this year's Sats as concerns are raised by markers
National categorisation of schools to end in Wales
Schools will no longer be colour coded depending on their performance – but inspection is to become more frequent
Schools get £25m for instruments under new music plan
Government announces a new national plan for music education and extra funding for competitive sport in schools
DfE starts talks with sector over Oak quango plans
Exclusive: Discussions will begin next week over how the new national arm's-length curriculum body will operate
Miss tutoring form deadline and we’ll reclaim cash, DfE tells heads
Schools that receive school-led tutoring funding as part of the NTP have been warned that they must submit an end of year statement by 16 September
Warning over ‘knee jerk’ response to fix ECF
Exclusive: Allow schools and trusts involved in Early Career Framework delivery to build on first-year learning, says leader
Revealed: schools’ ‘soul-destroying’ bids to fix broken buildings
Hundreds of schools have repeatedly missed out in their applications for funding to repair rundown buildings, while others have enjoyed much more success. But why? 91¶¶Òõ investigates
No schools managed to switch energy using government service in 2022
Exclusive: The government's School Switch platform closed in March – but no school successfully switched energy using it after December 2021
Zahawi labels GCSE poetry changes as ‘cultural vandalism’
The removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE poetry anthology was criticised by the education secretary
Pupils getting into first choice school at highest level in years
The proportion of secondary school applicants who received an offer from their first preference school increased to 83.3 per cent, while the figure was 92.2 per cent at primary level
Zahawi: Teacher strike would be ‘unforgivable’
Teachers going on strike over pay would cause further disruption to pupils' education after the pandemic, the education secretary says
DfE launches £750K plan to promote flexible working in schools
The DfE says its chosen provider will deliver a 'culture change programme' to embed flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts
Pay rise proposals ‘not enough’ to solve Stem teacher shortage
Recruitment targets for physics and computing are highly unlikely to be achieved under any package of measures, report warns
GCSEs 2022: League tables ‘unfair’ despite DfE changes
Leaders warn that the DfE's plan to change its school performance league tables website in the aftermath of Covid does not go far enough
Almost 4 in 10 teachers ‘would support strike’ over 3% pay rise
Exclusive: Support for a teacher strike could increase without a better pay offer, and government should be 'very concerned', warns heads' union leader
Dundee teacher strike called off after legal intervention
Court decision stops Dundee City Council 'implementing' or 'taking any further steps to implement' faculties in its schools
GCSEs: OCR adds 15 poems to boost ‘diversity’
Works by Ukrainian, black and South Asian poets to be introduced to OCR's GCSE English literature course from September
Teacher strike warning as prices hit 40-year high
Largest teaching union warns it will ballot for strike action if members don't receive a fully-funded inflation-plus pay rise
How schools responded to rail strikes
Heads have praised the 'resilience' of staff after schools worked to minimise the disruption caused by strike action today
Guidance on the use of restraint not enough, says commissioner
Proposed new official guidance on the use of restraint in schools must be ‘put on a statutory footing’, says Scotland’s children’s commissioner
More than quarter of a million students met threshold for absence fines
Students with Send and those who are disadvantaged were more likely to meet the thresholds for consideration of a parental fine, new analysis showsÂ
DfE accused of ‘telesales’ tactics to boost tutoring take-up
Exclusive: School leaders have hit out after new figures showed the DfE made 7,513 calls to schools over the past few weeks to drive up usage of the NTP
A levels 2022: AQA investigating chemistry paper ‘leak’
Exam board says it will 'take any action necessary, including working with the police'