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Schools will no longer have to follow controversial safeguarding rules which caused teachers to be unnecessarily suspended from work. From September, so-called “disqualification by association” rules, which require staff working with young children to apply to Ofsted for a waiver if they live with anyone with spent convictions for certain types of crime, will no longer […]

Ofsted inspectors know that progress scores don’t “paint the whole picture” of school quality, Amanda Spielman has said today, as she rejected accusations of bias against disadvantaged schools. The chief inspector of schools warned delegates at an Education Policy Institute conference that government performance tables do not show “what schools aren’t doing”, and claimed inspectors […]

The government has announced a series of measures to help LGBT pupils in schools, after new statistics revealed that almost one in ten of the most serious incidents of homophobia involved a member of teaching staff. Funding for homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying will be extended, and new guidance for schools on how to support […]

The Department for Education is refusing to name the 16 campaign groups whose responses to the grammar school consultation were discounted from its final analysis. In the responses to 2016’s Schools that work for everyone consultation, which proposed expanding selective schools and changing faith schools admissions, 80 responses from 16 “potential campaigns” were excluded. However, […]

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 […]