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19 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Comprehensive heads reject grammar schools plan

Opposition to the government’s grammar schools plan is building among headteachers in both selective and non-selective areas on the eve of a major inquiry into the proposals. In the largest co-ordinated intervention of school leaders to date, all but one of the secondary school heads in Surrey have written to the education secretary Justine Greening […]

So it鈥檚 goodbye to the Education for All bill… or is it?

New laws forcing more schools to become academies will not happen in this academic year. That’s about the only certainty in a week of seemingly abandoned plans. It’s official. The Education for All bill is no more. Or so almost everyone was proclaiming last week when a throwaway line in a statement from Justine Greening […]

New free schools chief resets Cameron鈥檚 target

The government would need to triple the average number of free schools opened each year to meet higher targets for 2020 demanded by Toby Young, the newly appointed director of the New Schools Network. The journalist and author was appointed last month to lead the government-funded charity after its former chief, Nick Timothy, left to […]

Union website predicts budget cuts for every school in England

A new interactive website which purports to calculate the cuts faced by every school in England has been launched – with some parts of the country predicted to lose as much as 16 per cent of their funding. The National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have launched the School Cuts website […]

Nicky Morgan: I had to ‘fend off ideas’ from Downing Street

Nicky Morgan has revealed she often had to “fend off ideas” from Downing Street during her time as education secretary, and called for her successor to be given “space” to develop policy. In an exclusive interview with Schools Week, Morgan spoke for the first time about the pressure placed on her by the prime minister’s […]

MPs hope power of prayer will scrap pupil database changes

MPs will attempt to scrap a law that forces schools to collect data on pupils’ nationality and country of birth unless they receive reassurances from the government over potential misuse of the data, Schools Week can reveal. Opposition politicians are preparing to use parliamentary procedure to try to repeal the legal move that implemented the […]

Wilshaw writes letter condemning heads for failing to stop pupil fight

The Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised four London schools following a fight involving some of their pupils. Wilshaw said the schools should have known about plans for a fight between pupils in September and sent staff to break it up. In a letter to the heads of the four schools involved, he said […]

Comprehensives can have ‘grammar school ethos’, claims Wilshaw

Comprehensives can have a ‘grammar-school ethos’, Sir Michael Wilshaw has claimed as he launched his latest attack on plans to expand selection. The Ofsted boss told the Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association (FASNA) conference this morning that grammar schools were not the answer to the nation’s problems, but said there was no reason […]

Former union boss and Reach 4 chair among new advisers for schools commissioner

A former union president and the chair of one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing academy trusts have been appointed to advise the schools commissioner Martin Post. Post, the regional commissioner for north west London and south central England, has announced that Tony Draper, Peter Little and Seamus Oates will join his advisory headteacher board. […]