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More than 30 per cent of local authority-maintained secondary schools are now in deficit, new data from the Department for Education shows. Statistics published by the government today show a worsening financial position for council-maintained schools as real-terms budget cuts continue to bite, with the number in deficit rising. At secondary level – the average […]

The government will start including data on the number of pupils schools send on to higher-level apprenticeships in school league tables in a bid to tackle “snobbery” over technical education, Damian Hinds will say today. The education secretary will announce a change to school performance tables which will see apprenticeships at level 4 or above […]

Academy trusts have become more risk-averse as the government has increased its auditing of their work, the former national schools commissioner has said. Sir David Carter said today that the weakest schools will continue to fail unless more strong academy trusts and leaders step up to take them on. It follows a warning from Ofsted […]

School leaders have been warned they will face action if they abuse their position of trust following the successful prosecution of an ex-headteacher who unlawfully took pupils’ personal data from his previous schools. The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the strong warning after Darren Harrison, of Twickenham, south London, was fined after admitting two offences of unlawfully […]

A new inspection regime for multi-academy trusts will be introduced this month, Ofsted has revealed. In its annual report, the watchdog said it will introduce new summary evaluations, which will see groups of schools in the same trust inspected across one or two terms and feedback sessions with leaders once reports are published. At the […]

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 […]

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 […]