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New government data has undermined boasts by the architects of university technical colleges about the “excellent destinations” of their pupils. The Baker Dearing Trust, which backs UTCs, has repeatedly asserted that just 1 per cent of 18-year-olds leaving the 14 to 19 technical schools were not in employment, education or training, or “NEET”. However, according […]

The government is not ruling out legislation to make schools more accountable for the children they place in alternative provision, the education secretary has said. Ahead of a round table meeting about alternative provision at the Centre for Social Justice today, Damian Hinds said a legal mechanism to hold schools to account for permanently excluded […]

Schools that entered large numbers of their pupils for the English computer driving licence have seen their progress scores slump this year after the controversial qualification was removed from national league tables. The average progress 8 score among schools which entered between 90 and 100 per cent of their pupils for the ECDL in 2017 […]

Control of the organisation which runs the Grangewood Independent Primary School in east London has been handed over to new trustees following a Charity Commission investigation. The watchdog froze the bank accounts of the Grangewood Educational Association and appointed interim managers in May following complaints about the charity’s governance and management. The charity, which runs the Forest […]

The government is lobbying those in charge of controversial university technical colleges to move away from recruitment at 14, the academies minister has revealed. Lord Agnew told the House of Lords today that he is “trying to encourage” Lord Baker, the founder of the UTC movement to “adjust the entry age of UTCs so that […]

The capacity of the Office for National Statistics to meet a deluge of applications for national pupil database information has been questioned following a shake-up of the Department for Education’s data sharing practices. Most organisations will now have to register with the ONS before they can request information from the national pupil database, which holds […]

Damian Hinds has insisted he is “happy” with England’s system of using multiple exam boards for GCSEs and A-levels, putting to bed years of speculation about the future of the market. The education secretary, who as a backbench MP questioned the logic of having more than one exam board, told Schools Week he was content […]

School leaders have backed an attempt to force the government to collect data on food security, which will hand schools more clout in their fight against holiday hunger. Emma Lewell-Buck, the shadow children’s minister, already has the support of more than 150 MPs from across the political divide for her food insecurity bill, which will […]