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At least 9,000 prospective teachers barred from training after failing a skills test three times will be able to book retakes again from this Thursday. Schools Week understands that the government’s decision to scrap the controversial lock-out rule, which prevents would-be trainees from taking the QTS literacy and numeracy skills test for two years if […]

The government is to scrap the controversial lock-out period that currently prevents would-be teachers from retaking the QTS skills test for two years if they fail it three times. The end of the lock-out, which last year prevented thousands of teachers from qualifying, is one of a series of measures announced by the schools minister […]

A junior school in Somerset has been hit with a financial notice to improve from the government after it failed to set a balanced budget. The Education and Skills Funding Agency has issued St Michael’s Academy in Yeovil with a financial notice to improve. Under the terms of the notice, many of the school’s spending […]

The sponsor of Floreat Brentford Primary School, a free school in west London, has announced plans to close the school, citing problems with temporary buildings and “critically low” funding levels. Floreat Education, the academy trust founded by the health minister and former David Cameron adviser Lord O’Shaughnessy, has today announced that it has put in […]

School leaders’ lack of understanding of counselling and psychotherapy is making it difficult for them to commission mental health support for their pupils, new research has found. A joint survey of 655 leaders and 1,198 health workers in schools by children’s mental health charity Place2Be revealed that 45 per cent of school leaders have found […]

The government will proceed with its plans to change the threshold for free school meals eligibility under universal credit, children’s minister Nadhim Zahawi has announced. It means a new £7,400 earnings threshold, proposed in a consultation launched last November, will be introduced. The government estimates an extra 50,000 pupils will become eligible for free school […]

Eight local councils are not confident that schools in their area have lawful admissions arrangements, according to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator. In her annual report, Shan Scott said her findings were “concerning”, especially in light of the growing importance of councils’ role in objecting to schools’ admissions rules when they believe they break […]

Ministers are under increasing pressure to say whether they will make personal, social, health and economics (PSHE) lessons compulsory, amid apprehension about the extra resources schools will need to teach the subject. Labour wants clarity from Nick Gibb, the schools minister, who has refused to say exactly how cash-strapped schools will be supported to deliver […]