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Chris Keates is to step down as general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union after 15 years in the role, Schools Week has learned. In an email to staff, seen by the newspaper, Keates confirmed she told the union’s national executive on June 7 that she will not be standing again for re-election. It follows a period […]

Nine academy trust leaders have been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours this year, making up a fifth of all those recognised for their work in schools. Jon Coles (pictured top centre), the chief executive of United Learning, is to be knighted. He is one of 48 people honoured this year for their services to […]

An academy trust had to register a pupil referral unit as a school after Ofsted found it had been operating illegally as a subsidiary company for six years. The government is now facing growing calls for tougher monitoring of alternative provision and provide more clarity around registration. The Rodillian Academy Trust had run the Southway […]

The universities regulator says it has “no plans” to share sensitive named pupil data with private companies as parliament prepares to give it access to the details of millions of children and adults. Secondary legislation will allow data from the national pupil database (NPD) to be passed to the Office for Students (OfS). It should […]

Theresa May wants to announce a “multibillion programme” to overhaul schools before she leaves office, it has been reported. The Financial Times claims the prime minister has urged the chancellor for a three-year school funding settlements, with more money for failing schools, teacher training and a review of the way the schools budget is allocated […]

Ministers have launched a new group to explore the benefits artificial intelligence can bring to the classroom. Nick Gibb, the schools minister, said the impact of AI technologies in the classroom “still remains largely unevidenced”, and wants to find out more about how it can help schools. Responding to a written parliamentary question from the […]

The government is hampering improvement in school effectiveness in the north of England, the leaders of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership have warned MPs. Lord Jim O’Neill, a former Treasury minister and vice-chair of the NPP and Henri Murison, the organisation’s director, warned of problems with the government’s opportunity areas programme and “chaos” in the regional schools […]

Boris Johnson’s pledge to ensure every secondary school in England gets £5,000 per pupil could amount to as little as just under £50 million extra funding – or a 0.1 per cent increase in overall school spending. Writing in the Telegraph, the Tory leadership frontrunner said it was “simply not sustainable that funding per pupil […]