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LocatED, the Department for Education’s property firm, has published its first annual report and accounts, giving a glimpse into the inner-workings of the secretive company set up to buy free school sites. 1. LocatED had no targets last year, but it does now The report shows that the company had no key performance indicators in […]

The government’s long-awaited industrial strategy white paper has been published by the business secretary, Greg Clark. Here are the most relevant bits for schools… 1. Performance measures to recognise T-levels The government’s new vocational T-level qualifications will be introduced in 2022 for 16 to 19-year-olds, with funding of £500 million a year. But there have […]

Ofsted is to take steps to “publicly acknowledge” the work of entire school management teams, to address a tendency to pin successes and failures on headteachers alone, Amanda Spielman has said. The chief inspector of schools told the Ark Schools Teach 2017 conference in Birmingham today that she was “all too aware” of a tendency […]

Multi-academy trusts are “not going to be the only answer” to collaboration between schools “any time soon, if ever”, a regional schools commissioner has admitted. Christine Quinn, who oversees all the academies and chains operating in the West Midlands, said today that although multi-academy trusts are the “best” option for encouraging schools to connect and work […]

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 […]