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The body that advises the government on teacher pay will next year be given the “flexibility” to recommend an average rise of more than 1 per cent, the government has said. Liz Truss, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has written to Dr Patricia Rice, the chair of the School Teachers Review Body, with an […]

Downing Street has confirmed that Sir Theodore Agnew, the founder of the Inspiration Trust, has been appointed as the new minister for academies, following the departure of Lord Nash. Schools Week revealed earlier today that Agnew was being touted as Nash’s successor as the DfE’s minister in the House of Lords. Now his appointment has been […]

It has been confirmed that Sir Theodore Agnew, chair of the Inspiration Trust academy chain, will replace Lord Nash as academies minister at the Department for Education. Here are some interesting things we know about him…   1. He failed the 11-plus and ‘doesn’t believe in’ grammar schools Agnew attended the independent Beeston Hall school […]

Sir Theodore Agnew, a prominent Conservative donor who founded the Inspiration Trust academy chain, is rumoured to be Lord Nash’s replacement as the government’s academies minister, Schools Week understands. Rumours of Nash’s departure have been circulating for some time, but staff at the Department for Education were told this week that he is to leave, […]

The government’s plan to give working parents access to up to 30 hours of free childcare every week risks increasing the gap in school readiness between disadvantaged children and their peers, the Sutton Trust has warned. A new report claims the decision not to extend the childcare offer for 3 and 4-year-olds to non-working parents […]

Labour will pay teachers “properly” if elected to power, according to the shadow education secretary. Following the government’s focus on traditional subjects, Angela Rayner also said she wanted all people to access a rich curriculum, insisting that knowledge “belongs to the many, not the few”. However, she did not outline any significant new schools policies […]

Conference, last year I said it was a surprise, but a great privilege, to stand before you as Shadow Secretary of State for Education.  And what a year it has been. Theresa May started it by warning of a coalition of chaos. Now she leads it. And her education ministers have spent the last few […]

The Labour Party has explained more about its proposed National Education Service, in a draft charter that all schools would be required to sign up to. Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, will launch the charter during her speech at the party’s annual conference in Brighton this afternoon. The National Education Service is Labour’s umbrella […]