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Campaigners seeking to halt schools from collecting data on pupil nationality and country of birth will today request permission for a judicial review of the policy in the High Court. The campaign group Against Borders for Children, represented by the human rights charity Liberty, will focus its legal argument on whether the policy infringes the […]

Schools failed to obtain nationality data for a quarter of their pupils this year, indicating a significant resistance to the controversial new requirement to collect it from school staff, parents and pupils. New government data shows the information was successfully collected from around three quarters of the 8.1 million pupils who were registered in January. […]

The government is looking for a company to check the quality of new national professional qualifications for teachers, and up to £10 million is available for the winning bidder. The Department for Education has advertised for a “single national provider or consortium” to provide “quality assurance to National Professional Qualifications throughout England” between March 2018 […]

A studio school in Manchester plagued with financial and performance problems since it opened in 2014 faces closure after the schools commissioner said turning it around would be a “challenging task” for any new sponsor. The regional schools commissioner, Vicky Beer, has written to everyone involved with the Manchester Creative Studio to inform them of […]

An academy trust founded by a minister is considering a merger with another chain after it admitted that it cannot continue to run three primary schools on its own. The Floreat Education Academies Trust, set up by Lord O’Shaughnessy, a health minister and a former adviser of David Cameron’s in 2014, is in talks with […]

The parliamentary education committee spent almost two hours grilling the national schools commissioner Sir David Carter and the academies minister Lord Theodore Agnew. It was Agnew’s first appearance in front of the committee since his appointment, and Carter’s first hearing for at least a year. Here are the 6 most important things we learned…   […]

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has written to the trustees of academy trusts with just one school that have staff earning more than £150,000 a year to ask for justification of the salaries. The letter, from new ESFA chief executive Eileen Milner, specifically targets so-called “single-academy trusts” and requests further information on their “rationale for […]

The government has published details of its long-awaited careers strategy. Here are the main proposals for schools. 1. Dedicated “careers leaders” £4 million in new funding will provide “training and support” for at least 500 schools and colleges to train a dedicated careers leader. This funding works out as about £8,000 per school, and by […]