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Dame Martina Milburn, the new chair-designate of the Social Mobility Commission, was personally approached by the education secretary and asked to consider applying for the job, she has revealed. Milburn was nominated for the job in May after a lengthy recruitment process, which followed the resignation of the commission’s entire board over a “lack of […]

A south London grammar school which forced pupils out at the end of year 12 because of their AS-level grades “put the institution above the pupils”, an independent inquiry into practices at the school has found. The probe, commissioned by Bromley Council, found St Olave’s in Orpington unlawfully prevented pupils from continuing into their second […]

Sixty-four per cent of pupils achieved the government’s “expected standard” in reading, writing and maths in this year’s key stage 2 SATs, up from 61 per cent last year, according to interim results published by the government. The results show that the proportion of pupils reaching a scaled score of 100 or more rose in […]

Schools in 20 areas of England will have access to funding to train staff to give better careers advice and offer pupils more “encounters” with employers. Damian Hinds, the education secretary, has announced the locations of 20 new “careers hubs”, which will share £5 million in government grants and work with schools to improve advice […]

The Department for Education has today released the marks pupils needed for the 2018 key stage 2 tests to achieve the government’s “expected” score. To meet government expectations, pupils must achieve 100 in their scaled scores. But this equates to different marks for each paper (maths; reading; grammar, punctuation and spelling) and can change each […]

Records of meetings held by the board of the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) will finally be published online from this month, following pressure from MPs. Chair Christine Hodgson and chief executive Claudia Harris were grilled in May over the CEC’s lack of transparency, during a bruising appearance before the Commons education select committee, where […]

Two organisations offering development opportunities for teachers and leaders are to merge into a single charity. Ambition School Leadership, which has more than 9,000 leaders in its network, will join with the Institute for Teaching to form a new organisation, leaders of the two groups have announced today. The new organisation, which has not yet […]

Ministers are under pressure to reinstate a shortlived rule that forced schools to collect data on the language proficiency of pupils whose first language is not English. EAL professionals say the collection, which required schools to rate pupils’ proficiency in English from “new to English” to “fluent” using alphabetical codes, gave schools an incentive to […]