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The Department for Education doesn’t have enough money to pay for free sanitary products for every eligible pupil in the country, despite a pledge to “fully fund” the initiative. Tender documents published by the Department for Education (DfE) show the government is prepared to spend between £10 and £20 million on the scheme from this […]

Ofsted’s grading system is “proven” and works, the chief inspector of schools has insisted, defying leaders’ demands for a shake-up. Amanda Spielman told the Wellington College Festival of Education today that Ofsted remains “the arbiter of quality in state education”, despite being “rarely loved”, and pointed to parents’ knowledge of the inspectorate’s brand as proof […]

Michael Gove has pledged to give Premier League football clubs a “responsibility” to support free schools if he become prime minister – despite closing a scheme for clubs to support pupils when he was education secretary. The Evening Standard has reported the leadership contender and former education secretary intends to “draw on his past work persuading […]

A major international survey has revealed the views of thousands of teachers in England and across the world. The OECD has published the results of its latest teaching and learning international survey (TALIS). The organisation spoke to 4,000 teachers and leaders in 200 schools, who were all randomly selected for the study. We’ve pulled out […]

An A-level paper due to be sat by thousands of pupils this Thursday is to be replaced amid concerns over cheating, the exam board Edexcel has said. An investigation by Pearson, Edexcel’s parent company, has found that a packet containing copies of its further maths A-level paper was opened at a school. The breach was […]

It would cost almost £5 billion to reverse funding cuts experienced by schools since 2009 and protect their budgets until 2023, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said, following a series of funding pledges by Tory leadership contenders. New analysis shows schools need an extra £3.8 billion a year to bring them up to the […]

The government will continue to prioritise social mobility no matter who takes over as prime minister, the education secretary has said. Damian Hinds said today it was a “good thing” that school funding and other education issues had been so prominent in the leadership campaign, adding that he expects his successor to continue to focus […]

The government will amend the school admissions code to “accelerate” the process of moving vulnerable children between schools, Damian Hinds has announced today. The education secretary told an event organised by the Reform think tank today that it was “very, very important” for so-called children in need to be in school to help them avoid […]

Three senior national officials at one of the country’s largest teaching unions have been serving lengthy suspensions following disputes with the organisation’s top team, Schools Week can reveal. In one case, a senior staffer at NASUWT has been off work for more than a year and a half, while two others were suspended around a […]