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20 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Nick Gibb stays as schools minister in May reshuffle

Nick Gibb will continue as the minister for school standards after a minor reshuffle of the Department for Education team. Justine Greening, the education secretary Gibb has served under for the past year, was also re-appointed as education secretary over the weekend. Gibb was first appointed as school minister for the coalition government in 2010, having […]

Grammars advocate resigns as PM’s adviser

Nick Timothy, a key adviser to the prime minister and former director of the New Schools Network, has resigned from his role in Downing Street. Writing for the Conservative Home website, Timothy calls the election result a “huge disappointment” and says he takes responsibility for his part in it, which included oversight of the party’s policy […]

Election 2017: Education’s winners and losers

One of the most eventful election campaigns in decades has resulted in significant changes to the line-up of MPs with education jobs. Whatever happens in the coming days, a reshuffle of the team of ministers at the Department for Education will be necessary. Here’s what happened to the main movers and shakers in education… Justine […]

Education committee chair Neil Carmichael loses seat as Justine Greening clings on

The former chair of the education select committee Neil Carmichael has lost his seat in parliament in one of many shock upsets for the Conservative Party. Carmichael’s defeat in his former constituency of Stroud, Gloucestershire, was one of several stunning losses during a difficult night for his party during which the education secretary Justine Greening […]

Election night 2017: The constituencies to watch if you work in education

It’s been one of the most eventful and uncertain election campaigns in recent history, and now it’s almost over. The polls will close at 10pm tonight, and this will be closely followed by exit polls before constituency results start to trickle in from around 11.30pm. In case you were worried we hadn’t done something really nerdy […]

Bookies predict education MPs heading back to parliament

Most of the politicians who had the top education jobs in the last parliament look set to return as MPs, at least according to the latest odds offered by bookies. Justine Greening, the education secretary, and Angela Rayner, her Labour shadow, are odds-on to win big in their seats of Putney, south London, and Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater […]

One in five schools face disruption as voters go to the polls

One in five of England’s schools are expected to experience disruption or closure today as the country goes to the polls for the snap general election. Research by Schools Week has found that 22.6 per cent of schools are due to be used as polling stations, with hundreds having to close completely to help the voting […]

Death of 4-year-old boy prompts calls for review of schools’ absence approach

A coroner has told ministers to take action on the systems schools use to deal with unexpected absences, following the death of a four-year-old boy who was left alone in his family flat for two weeks after his mother died. Coroner Mary Hassell insisted that action “should be taken” to avoid deaths in the future, after an inquest […]

2017 scaled scores for key stage 1 tests published

The Department for Education has released the marks pupils needed in last month’s key stage 1 tests to achieve the government’s “expected” score. Scaled scores replaced ‘levels’ for the first time last year. To meet government expectations, pupils must achieve 100 in their scaled scores. But what marks this equates to differs for each paper […]