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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 […]

Around 50 per cent of pupils who left school before taking their GCSEs last year did not end up in another state school, prompting warnings about schools deliberately “off-rolling” problem children. New Ofsted analysis of school census data shows that more than 19,000 pupils who were in year 10 in 2016 did not progress to year […]

The proportion of schools recorded as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ has dropped by two percentage points after missing data for 702 schools was added to Ofsted’s statistics. Once their data is added to the watchdog’s datasets, 86 per cent of schools are now rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, down from 88 per cent. Most of the missing […]

Leading figures from Ofsted, the Department for Education and trades union movement were questioned by MPs about the quality of school inspection in England. The parliamentary public accounts committee, which oversees government spending, called a hearing to discuss the findings of a recent National Audit Office report into Ofsted’s activities. Witnesses included Amanda Spielman, the […]

The London art teacher who won this year’s global teacher prize will use her winnings to found a charity linking artists with schools. Andria Zafirakou, a teacher at Alperton Community School in Brent, won $1 million when she was crowned the best teacher in the world earlier this year. During a rousing keynote speech to […]