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Frank Field Education Trust to sponsor first school

An academy trust set up by veteran Labour politician Frank Field and Tory donor David Ross has announced it is taking on its first school. The Frank Field Education Trust (FFET) is the brainchild of Field, the MP for Birkenhead, and Ross, the millionaire founder of Carphone Warehouse, who chairs the New Schools Network. The […]

Frank Norris, Director, Co-op Academies Trust

Frank Norris is either the most relaxed academy boss I’ve ever met or he’s got an incredible poker face. It could just be because he’s due to retire in the near future, but Norris is immeasurably calm for a man whose schools empire is about to more than treble in size. When we meet in […]

KS1 teacher assessments 2018: Reading down, maths up and science stable

A lower proportion of pupils met the government’s “expected standard” in key stage 1 reading teacher assessments this year, while results for maths improved slightly. In 2018, 75 per cent of pupils were said to be working at the expected standard in reading, compared to 76 per cent in 2017. But the proportion of pupils […]

Phonics check: 82% meet ‘expected standard’ in 2018

The proportion of pupils meeting the government’s “expected standard” in the year 1 phonics screening check has increased to 82 per cent. Last year, 81 per cent met the standard in year 1. The proportion of pupils meeting the standard by the end of year 2 remains stable at 92 per cent. The proportion of […]

Hinds: Labour academies plan is ‘reckless’

Damian Hinds has criticised Labour’s plans to put a halt to the academies programme, labelling them as “reckless”. The education secretary said returning academies and free schools to local authority oversight would “turn the clock back on the successful education reforms we have enacted”, and on “the 1.9 million more children at good or outstanding schools”. […]

The 9 policies in Angela Rayner’s 2018 Labour conference speech

Labour is set to announce sweeping reforms to England’s school system at its annual conference tomorrow. In a speech, Angela Rayner will announce plans to curtail the freedoms of academy trusts and put councils in charge of opening new schools and deciding who can go to existing ones. Here are all the policies she is set […]

Labour mulls creation of state-funded supply teacher agency

Labour will look into the feasibility of creating a state-funded supply teacher agency to compete with commercial providers and save schools £500 million a year, Angela Rayner has announced. The shadow education secretary told the Labour Party conference today that she has tasked Mike Kane, the shadow schools minister, with setting up a teacher supply […]

Union demands Brexit certainty for EU teachers

Schools need urgent clarity about the work restrictions teachers from Europe will face in Britain after the country leaves the EU, the National Education Union has said, amid confusion following a landmark report. The migration advisory committee has published its recommendations for the Home Office on how migration to the UK from the European Economic […]

Councils to get sweeping powers over academies under Labour reforms

The shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is to announce sweeping reforms to the school system that will clip the wings of academy trusts while boosting the powers of individual schools and local authorities. Under a future Labour government, the free schools programme will end, and only councils will be allowed to open or “commission” new […]