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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 […]

More than 1,700 teachers and childcare providers were left in limbo as a result of “disproportionate” rules that disqualified them from working because they lived with someone with a criminal record. Over the past two years, Ofsted received hundreds of unnecessary applications for waivers to continue at work after confusing teachers with so-called “disqualification by […]

Leaders and governors at an ‘inadequate’ university technical college were unaware of “significant” weaknesses for years, Ofsted has said. Those in charge of Health Futures UTC, in West Bromwich have been “ineffective since it opened in September 2015”, inspectors said, and have “failed to secure an acceptable standard of education for students over that time”. […]

Bullying – some of it racial – is rife at a university technical college that announced plans to close earlier this week, according to a damning Ofsted report which rated the school ‘inadequate’. UTC@Harbourside, a 14 to 19 school with a vocational focus in Newhaven, East Sussex, broke “too many promises”, inspectors said. It is the […]

A flagship government school building programme underspent by more than 64 per cent 2016-17 and will now not be completed on time, the Department for Education has admitted. The second phase of the priority school building programme, also known as PSBP2, is supposed to rebuild or refurbish buildings at 277 schools by the end of […]

A new specialist maths school will open in Liverpool in 2020, the government has announced. The University of Liverpool Mathematics College will become the third of its kind when it opens in just over two years’ time, attracting substantial extra funding from an £18 million funding pot unveiled by the chancellor last year. A special […]