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The Department for Education spent more than £115 million on free school projects that went on to fail, new data shows. The government has updated its register of capital spending on free schools, which details the acquisition and construction costs for all mainstream free schools, as well as information for university technical colleges and studio […]

Draft statutory guidance on the new relationships and sex education curriculum has finally been published. The 38-page document sets out the things primary and secondary schools will have to teach from September 2020, but also includes some instructions on how the new curriculum should be administered. Here’s what the guidance says schools should do…   […]

It will be up to headteachers to decide whether their pupils can withdraw from sex education in their schools from 2020, Schools Week has learned. Under the new curriculum, parents will have a right to “request” their children be withdrawn from “some or all” of sex education at secondary school, and heads will be advised […]

Michael Dwan, the founder of the controversial Bright Tribe Trust, has apologised for the problems faced by Cumbria’s troubled Whitehaven Academy, but bemoaned a lack of support from the government and some members of the community. In a long statement from the private office of the venture capitalist, “a small number of individuals” were blamed […]

Just six people applied to become the government’s new social mobility tsar by the original deadline, prompting ministers to reopen applications and personally approach potential candidates to ask them to apply, it has emerged. New figures show 15 of the 21 applications for the role of chair of the Social Mobility Commission were submitted after […]

Up to 200 members of staff at the National Education Union will go on strike this Thursday. The GMB and Unite unions, which represents trade union employees, have announced the first day of industrial action after 88 per cent of eligible members voted in favour of strike action. The dispute is over a consultation carried […]

Compulsory relationships and sex education will not be extended to all schools until 2020, it has been confirmed. The requirement for all schools, including academies, to teach relationships education, and for all secondary schools to teach sex education, was supposed to come into force in September 2019. Last month, education secretary Damian Hinds warned the […]

Drew Povey, the headteacher featured in the hit TV series Educating Greater Manchester, has been suspended, according to local news reports. The Manchester Evening News is reporting that Povey, the head at Harrop Fold School, and three other members of staff have been suspended. Lisa Stone, lead member for children’s and young people’s services at Salford […]

The Cumbria Education Trust (CET) has been given leave to take on the troubled Whitehaven Academy in Cumbria, more than seven months after Bright Tribe announced its intention to walk away from the school. In a statement, CET said it has been confirmed as the school’s new sponsor by the education secretary Damian Hinds, after […]