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24 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Williamson pledges a maths school in every region

Gavin Williamson has pledged to open a maths free school “in every region” of England. The education secretary made the pledge in his speech to the Conservative Party conference. Currently, only two maths schools are in operation – King’s Maths School in London and Exeter Maths School. Projects are also currently in the pipeline in […]

Free schools have a ‘branding problem’ says NSN director

Free schools have a “branding problem” and the “political will” behind them has diminished in recent years, the director of the New Schools Network has warned. Unity Howard, who runs the charity set up to support and promote free schools, told a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester today that free schools […]

Two in five don’t trust government to run schools well – poll

More people distrust government when it comes to running schools well than trust them, new data shows. A ComRes poll commissioned by the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference, which represents private school leaders, shows 41 per cent of people distrust government when it comes to running schools “effectively”, while just 35 per cent trust them. Parents […]

Interview: Damian Hinds reflects on his time as education secretary

Politics is a brutal game, and nothing quite epitomises that than seeing an ex-minister for the first time after a reshuffle. Damian Hinds, a man who until two months ago ran a department of thousands of people, greets me personally in the reception area of parliament’s Portcullis House. Gone are the advisers who once flanked […]

Williamson backs ‘Rolls Royce-level’ degree apprenticeships for teachers

Gavin Williamson has backed the idea of a teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates, saying that the government should not limit talent. The new education secretary told Schools Week he believes that there are opportunities within the teaching profession to replicate the success of degree apprenticeship schemes run by firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Rolls Royce. I […]

Pearson apologises after BTEC gaffe hits schools’ progress 8 scores

Ministers have vowed to amend schools’ progress 8 scores after it was discovered some were as much as 0.2 points lower than expected because Pearson sent incomplete BTEC results to the government. The exam board has apologised after some schools checked Department for Education data on Thursday and were shocked to see that their progress […]

Phonics check pass rate falls for the first time

The proportion of year 1 pupils meeting the government’s “expected standard” in the phonics screening check has fallen for the first time since the test was introduced. In 2019, 82 per cent of year 1 pupils met the expected standard, down 0.6 percentage points on last year. The proportion of pupils achieving the standard by […]

Extend free school meals to secondary pupils, says shadow minister

Labour should look to extend the availability of free school meals to secondary schools “at the earliest possible opportunity”, a shadow minister has said. Sharon Hodgson, the shadow minister for public health, told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference this afternoon that the party should go beyond its current pledge to extend free […]

Labour pledges 32-hour working week, but will it work for teachers?

School staff and other workers across England have been promised “a shorter working week with no loss of pay” if Labour comes to power. But the announcement raises questions about how schools could function under such a system. In his speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton this morning, John McDonnell told delegates a […]