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15 June 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Ofqual ‘extremely cautious’ about more primary testing changes

The government should be “extremely cautious” about further changes to primary assessment, Ofqual’s chief regulator has told MPs. Sally Collier told the education select committee this morning that feedback had urged caution about “too much change too quickly”. Ministers have announced a review of primary assessment, with a consultation due to take place later this year, […]

Unfilled places and 拢30m land deals 鈥� NAO takes aim at free schools

The government has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on its flagship free school project after an investigation found more than half of new places were in areas they were “not needed”. The National Audit Office found that 57,500 of 113,500 new places in mainstream free schools opening between 2015 and 2021 will create ‘spare […]

Oasis director Andy Yarrow appointed chief executive of CfBT Schools Trust

The CfBT multi-academy trust has appointed a senior director from Oasis Community Learning as its new chief executive, with his brief to lead recently-revealed expansion plans after the trust’s spell on the government’s ‘pause list’. Andy Yarrow has been appointed to lead the CfBT Schools Trust (CST) from mid-March after three and a half years […]

The top 3 priorities for ministers on primary assessment

As the education select committee prepares to grill the schools minister Nick Gibb about primary assessment tomorrow, Nick Brook sets out his three priorities for the government’s upcoming review.   As we await the launch of the government’s primary assessment consultation, teachers will be turning their minds to this year’s SATs. Setting work to produce […]

Government considers council MAT for vulnerable Kent primaries

The government is in talks with a council over plans to create a ‘spin-off’ multi academy trust to run the region’s rural primary schools. The negotiations between the Department for Education and Kent County Council are understood to be the first of their kind, and follow concerns over a paucity of academy sponsors, especially for small, rural […]

What happened to the old technical schools?

The 1944 Education Act famously created three types of schools: academically selective grammars, selective technical schools, and secondary moderns for the hoi polloi. Grammars and secondary moderns charged ahead. But what happened to the selective technical schools? Few opened and of those that did, several became mainstream grammars before the end of the 1960s. The […]

Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to 拢35m new site

A struggling Bournemouth free school is still without a sponsor less than two months ahead of its move to a £35 million new site, despite re-brokerage to a prominent multi-academy trust having been proposed last year. Parkfield School is due to move to its new home at a former national air traffic control training centre at […]

Make sex education compulsory to stop spread of STIs, say councils

Councils across England say compulsory sex education should be extended to academies in order to reduce the spread of sexually-transmitted infections in young adults. The Local Government Association claims the introduction of a statutory duty for academies to provide sex and relationships education could reduce the “thousands of STIs diagnosed in young people later on […]

Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools

The MP who chairs Parliament’s influential education committee says the government has “yet to prove the case” for new grammar schools following an inquiry into ministers’ plans to expand selection in England. Neil Carmichael says the government must demonstrate how opening new grammar schools will aid social mobility and improve education outcomes for all children after […]