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The schools community has a “collective responsibility” to tackle the “culture of fear” surrounding inspections, the chief inspector has said, as she attacked headteachers who “manufacture tension” between Ofsted and schools. Amanda Spielman told a teaching conference in Birmingham this morning that the anxiety felt by teachers and school leaders about Ofsted was an “enormous […]

The government will revise its guidance on home education, the academies minister Lord Agnew has said. According to the minister, the Department for Education plans to draft and consult on revised guidance documents on elective home education for local authorities and parents. The changes will make clearer to councils the powers available to them and will […]

The education secretary will write to the body that makes recommendations on teacher pay rises “shortly”, the government has confirmed. Following today’s budget announcement, Justine Greening is now free to write to the School Teachers Review Body about its remit for next year’s pay award. Every year, the STRB receives a “remit letter” from the […]

The leader of Wakefield Council is to refer the Wakefield City Academies Trust to the police over alleged financial irregularities, after the authority voted to demand that £1.5 million in reserves taken from three of its schools is returned by the government. Councillor Peter Box told a meeting of the authority earlier this week that […]

A law that will force schools to let colleges, apprenticeship providers and University Technical Colleges talk to pupils about their study options will come into force in January, according to guidance published this morning by the Department for Education. The rule also requires schools to have a plan for how they will arrange the visits, […]

The chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his budget speech in parliament, announcing a series of measures aimed at improving access to maths and computing in schools. New investment in schools will include £177 million on maths and around £85 million on computing. He said schools would benefit from… Expansion of the Teaching for Mastery maths programme to […]

Schools and colleges will get £600 for every extra pupil who studies maths at A-level under a proposal due to be set out in tomorrow’s budget. The chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond, will announce the £177 million incentive tomorrow as part of a raft of new measures for schools. The Treasury said the money […]