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17 June 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Firm behind first for-profit free school is still losing money

The private company behind the country’s first for-profit free school has made a loss for the third year in a row, documents reveal. Accounts for the year to June 30, show IES International English Schools UK, which runs IES Breckland free school in Brandon, Suffolk, made an operating loss of £34,500 in 2018. The company […]

Halfon: Give schools their own NHS-style 10 year plan

Education needs a ten-year funding plan like the one drawn up for the NHS, the chair of the parliamentary education committee has said. Writing in Schools Week, Robert Halfon (pictured), a former education minister and Conservative Party deputy chairman, said it was “inexplicable and astonishing” that the health service can have a ten-year funding and […]

The problem with Hammond’s ‘little extras’ budget pledge

The chancellor’s £400 million capital “bonus” for schools to buy “little extras” could end up with brand-new schools being handed as much cash as those where the “roof is falling in”. Philip Hammond said the money, a one-off injection this year in the form of grants, would be “useful” to fund things like “whiteboards and […]

DfE to shell out 拢10m for 200 鈥榚xternal experts鈥�

The Department for Education will spend £10 million on 200 “external experts” to advise it on policy areas including safeguarding, free schools and the curriculum. A tender document published this week reveals that the department is searching for organisations to run a “register of external experts” made up of “individuals who have expertise and experience […]

Eight more suspected ‘illegal schools’ under criminal investigation

Eight institutions suspected of running illegal schools are currently under criminal investigation, it has emerged, just over a week after the government won its first legal battle against an unregistered school. In a trial widely seen as a test case for the government’s clampdown on illegal schools, headteacher Beatrix Bernhardt, 38 and director Nacerdine Talbi, […]

Education funding gap between rich and poor has ‘vanished’, says the IFS

Increases in school funding targeted at poorer pupils have helped to reduce the gap in education spending between rich and poor pupils, according to a think tank. A study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that differences in funding by social class “have now vanished” as a result of changes to the distribution of […]

The 6 ‘major risks’ to the quality of education, according to Ofsted

The chief inspector of schools Amanda Spielman has outlined the “major risks” to the quality of education, and renewed calls for greater powers for inspectors. In a letter to the parliamentary public accounts committee, Spielman said Ofsted “has not hesitated to speak out” when its inspections identify system-wide concerns, and pledged to continue to “speak from the […]