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21 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Opportunity area plans – what do schools need to know?

The government has released plans for the first six of its “opportunity areas”. The plans set out how each area will spend £6 million of funding, aimed at improving social mobility. A lot of the plans focus on school improvement, and some famous faces from the schools community have been appointed to chair some of […]

Government delays land valuations — leaving schools to foot the bill

The government has pushed back a planned valuation of academy land and buildings until January, leaving some schools facing the prospect of spending “thousands” on their own surveys to meet accounting requirements. The Education and Skills Funding Agency was due to issue valuations for new academies opened between September 2016 and August 2017 last month. […]

Halfon: 鈥楥ut pupil premium for schools that don鈥檛 promote apprenticeships鈥�

Schools that fail to send pupils into apprenticeships should lose some of their pupil premium funding, the chair of the education select committee has said. Robert Halfon, a former apprenticeships minister, told a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference that the government should consider financial incentives to encourage schools to promote apprenticeships. At the […]

Maths teacher bursaries rise 拢10,000, but they’ll get less upfront

The maximum bursary on offer to new maths teachers is to increase by £10,000, but the amount mathematicians will receive upfront will decrease, in a bid to encourage them to teach for longer. Under new bursaries for maths teachers unveiled by Justine Greening at the Conservative Party conference on Sunday, some maths graduates will receive […]

Teachers will get last year’s student loan payments back under pilot

Teachers will get any student loan repayments they made in the previous year reimbursed under a pilot announced by Justine Greening aimed at improving recruitment and retention. A briefing document for MPs, seen by Schools Week, sets out further detail on how the reimbursement scheme will work, and where it will operate. The education secretary […]

Greening’s conference speech 2017: the 6 key announcements

The education secretary Justine Greening is addressing the Conservative Party conference. Here are the main announcements from her speech… 1. Pilot of student loan forgiveness for teachers, targeted “at the subjects and areas of the country that need them most” 2. Next round of £140 million strategic school improvement fund to focus on reception numeracy […]

Teachers to get student loan forgiveness in government pilot

The government will pilot a scheme of student loan forgiveness for teachers in shortage subjects working in areas of the country struggling with recruitment. Justine Greening, the education secretary, told the Conservative Party conference today the policy would support schools to “attract and keep the best of the teaching profession”. First mooted in the party’s […]

Lawyers told ministers grammar school expansion likely to be illegal

Ministers were warned the decision to allow a Kent grammar school to build a new site more than eight miles away was at serious risk of losing if put to a judicial review, the former schools minister David Laws has revealed. Laws’s recently-published diaries, chronicling his time as a minister in the coalition, claim lawyers […]