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23 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Ofsted annual report reveals plight of ‘stuck schools’

One in ten secondary schools in the north east, Yorkshire and the Humber and the east midlands have been “stuck” with a low Ofsted grade for up to 13 years, the watchdog has warned. Ofsted’s chief inspector Amanda Spielman first warned of her concerns around “stuck schools” in October, when she revealed in a letter to […]

Avoid ‘uncritical use’ of PISA scores, researchers warn ministers

Ministers should avoid “uncritical use” of PISA scores because the tests ignore important elements of what English schools teach, new research has found. A new report for Cambridge Assessment by Dr Matthew Carroll and Dr Tom Benton found the focus on essay-writing skills in the GCSE English curriculum is not mirrored in PISA tests, meaning […]

DfE names 16 grammar schools that will split 拢50m expansion cash

The 16 grammar schools that will split the government’s first round of expansion funding have been named by the Department for Education. According to the Daily Mail, the schools will share the first £50 million from the selective schools expansion fund. The pot of money provides capital funding for grammar schools to create new buildings […]

DfE sets out ‘red flags’ for parents who use out-of-school settings

New draft guidance by the Department for Education seeks to help parents identify “red flags” in the safeguarding policies of out-of-school settings. The guidance, put out for consultation today, is part of a wider clampdown by the government on non-school provision that violates safeguarding rules or seeks to promote extremism. It has been published alongside […]

Oil tycoon’s foundation among New Schools Network donors

The foundation of a controversial oil tycoon was among the donors to the New Schools Network this year, new documents show. In what appears to be a first, accounts published by the NSN this week reveal the names of two donors, the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Set up by government to […]

Exam board marking league tables delayed by monitoring concerns

Ofqual, the exams regulator, is still trying to find a way to publish data on how the quality of marking varies between exam boards, more than three years after the idea was floated. Dame Glenys Stacey (pictured below), the former chief regulator at Ofqual, announced in June 2015 that the organisation would publish metrics for […]

Bright Tribe probe 鈥榳ill be published鈥�, vows academies minister

An investigation by the Education and Skills Funding Agency into allegations of wrongdoing at the doomed Bright Tribe trust will be made public after all of the chain’s schools have moved to new sponsors, the academies minister has pledged. In an exclusive interview with Schools Week, Lord Agnew said the under-fire trust had been “too […]

Ofsted research shows 7 in 10 school leaders work in their free time every day

Seven in ten school leaders work in their free time every day, and almost two thirds of teachers think their job is not valued by society, according to new Ofsted research. The watchdog has published details of interim findings from its teacher wellbeing and workload survey, which is based on 25 school and college visits […]