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Another university technical college will close next year, taking the total to nine. UTC@Harbourside, based in Newhaven in East Sussex, has announced it will close in August 2019 after failing to recruit enough pupils to become “financially stable”. The announcement comes ahead of the UTC’s first Ofsted report, which is due out on Wednesday. The […]

Schools should have to publish more financial information about themselves on their websites to make it easier for parents to hold them to account, the chair of a powerful parliamentary committee has said. Labour MP Meg Hillier, the chair of the public accounts committee, highlights education as one of six “departments of concern” in her […]

The government should resurrect its programme of character education awards and grants, Nicky Morgan has said. The former education secretary, who made character education her pet project during her two years at the helm at the Department for Education, told Schools Week that her successor Damian Hinds is “interested” in the area, and that she […]

A Downing Street reception for school teachers hosted by the prime minister last month was an “ideological love-in” at which staff from academies and free schools outnumbered those from maintained schools five to one. Theresa May and Damian Hinds welcomed more than 100 “high-performing” teachers to Number 10 on May 21 for a celebration of […]

The former education secretary Nicky Morgan has backed a proposal to have Ofsted inspectors award schools a specific mark based on pupil behaviour. Though her comments in support of heads who make pupils write lines or do community service have attracted more publicity, the announcement by Ofsted’s chief inspector Amanda Spielman, that inspectors will focus […]

Schools Week is proud to announce the appointment of John Dickens, its former chief reporter, as its new editor. Dickens (above, right) will return to the newsroom in September following a year-long sabbatical. He will take over from Shane Mann (above, left), the managing director of Schools Week publisher Lsect Ltd, who has served as the […]

Schools have been instructed to stop collecting data on their pupils’ nationality and country of birth, after the controversial collection was scrapped by ministers. Schools Week revealed in April that the Department for Education had decided to reverse its divisive move in 2016 to collect the data via the school census to include in the […]

The education secretary Damian Hinds has clashed with MPs on school funding, after he refused to say how much extra cash he is fighting for. Appearing in front of the parliamentary education committee this morning, Hinds claimed he is “always striving to make sure the funding is there” for education, but would not give details. […]

The government must “learn lessons” from the fiasco surrounding the troubled Whitehaven Academy and its sponsor the Bright Tribe Trust, the education secretary has said. Damian Hinds told the parliamentary education committee this morning that he accepted that a scandal which has left the struggling Cumbria school in special measures and with rapidly deteriorating buildings had […]