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24 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Layla Moran: Our manifesto pledges will help deliver 20k teachers target

The Liberal Democrats are counting on their reforms to school accountability, testing and teacher pay and development to deliver 20,000 extra teachers. Layla Moran, the party’s education spokesperson, told Schools Week the party was not launching one specific recruitment and retention initiative to meet its “ambitious” pledge. A crazy number of people just don’t stay […]

LGBT protest school head hopes court victory will help other schools

The headteacher of a school at the centre of fierce protests over LGBT-inclusive lessons hopes her landmark court victory will protect other schools from abuse. Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson has spoken of her “relief” after the High Court permanently banned protesters from outside the gates at Anderton Park primary in Birmingham. Now our case is a piece […]

Johnson pledges ‘no-notice’ Ofsted inspections

Boris Johnson has pledged to trial “no-notice” Ofsted inspections for schools if he is re-elected. In a surprise announcement, Johnson said he wanted to change the way inspections work, so they give a “true reflection” of how well schools are performing. No-notice inspections will do more harm than good The proposal did not feature in […]

Academies struggling with apprentice hiring target

Just 7 per cent of academy trusts and large academies met a new apprenticeship recruitment target in the first year of its existence, new figures have revealed. The public sector apprenticeship target came into force for schools last March, requiring all individual institutions and trusts with more than 250 employees to recruit 2.3 per cent […]

Catholic diocese defends 20% non-faith admissions at new VA school

A Catholic diocese preparing to open a new voluntary-aided school has insisted its decision to admit a fifth of pupils based on where they live, rather than their faith, does not breach Canon Law. In June, the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia was granted permission in principle by the government for a new VA […]

Twofold rise in secondaries losing ‘outstanding’ rating under Ofsted clampdown

The proportion of secondary schools that lost their ‘outstanding’ rating almost doubled last year amid a clampdown on underperforming schools that are exempt from inspection. Ofsted analysis of inspection data, seen by Schools Week, shows 75 per cent of previously ‘outstanding’ secondary schools inspected during the 2018-19 academic year were downgraded, compared with just 38 […]

Education becomes third most important election issue for parents

Education has become the third most important issue to parents in the current election campaign, according to new polling. Deltapoll polled 1,000 parents of school-age pupils on behalf of the National Education Union, and found education came third on a list of priorities, after the NHS and Brexit. The importance of education is growing in […]

More small private schools receive top Ofsted grades, but 1 in 10 still ‘inadequate’

Ofsted has reported a 9 per cent rise in the proportion of small private schools rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, but one in ten remains inadequate. Analysis published by the watchdog this morning shows that as of August, 75 per cent of so-called “non-association independent schools” received one of the two top grades at their most […]