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20 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Labour Party officially launches its ‘National Education Service’

The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, has set out how the Labour Party will build an education service “fit for the new millennium”. Rayner joined party leader Jeremy Corbyn for a campaign event at Leeds City College this morning and spoke about Labour’s plan for a National Education Service which would deliver “hope and prosperity […]

Liberal Democrats promise to ‘protect’ school funding

The Liberal Democrats will spend almost £7 billion protecting school and college funding, the pupil premium and will invest in continuing professional development for teachers if they win the general election, the party has announced. Protection for schools’ per-pupil funding against currently unfunded pressures, at a cost of £3.3 billion, is included in the party’s […]

Unions call for AET to halt 拢2.6m caretaker cuts

Unions representing staff at England’s largest multi-academy trust, the Academies Enterprise Trust, are warning that some schools in the chain face losing half of their caretaking staff in a £2.6 million cost-saving drive, putting pupils “at risk”. The GMB, Unite and Unison, which represent support staff at AET’s 66 schools, have come together with five […]

Labour pledges 拢25bn schools spending under new National Education Service

Labour has set out plans to pump £4.8 billion in additional revenue funding into schools, and spend £21 billion on building and maintaining institutions over the course of the next parliament. The party says the additional spending will help it plug a funding gap for schools estimated at £3 billion by the National Audit Office. […]

Anti-grammar schools campaign launches crowdfunding drive

A fundraising bid by a group of academics, authors and child psychologists will seek to challenge the government’s plans to open new grammar schools if the Conservatives win the general election. Theresa May wants to remove the ban on new selective institutions, and Justine Greening, the education secretary, announced at the weekend that she will build […]

Three-quarters of primary leaders lack confidence in SATs, survey finds

Three in four school leaders lack confidence in SATs, while half report having received inadequate information to prepare pupils for this year’s key stage 2 tests, a survey has revealed. A poll of more than 1,000 primary school leaders by The Key reveals that 77 per cent “do not have confidence” in the current national assessment system. […]

Meet the teachers running in the General Election 2017

The teacher union activist and Schools Week blog reviewer Emma Hardy (pictured) is among several education professionals selected to run for parliament on June 8. Hardy will be fighting to retain the former education secretary Alan Johnson’s old seat of Hull West and Hessle for Labour. A former primary teacher who left the profession to […]

David Ross Education Trust given ‘final warning’ over job cuts

One of England’s largest academy trusts has been issued with a “final warning” by unions over job cuts in what they claim is an unprecedented move that could lead to a strike by staff. In an intervention that is the first of its kind since the advent of academy trusts, eight unions representing teachers, leaders and support […]