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15 June 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Just six areas meet government’s grammar school criteria (and they aren’t in deprived places)

Just six areas meet government criteria for new grammar schools, according to a study published today, that found the areas all had low rates of deprivation. The Education Policy Institute (EPI) research found Solihull, Essex, North Yorkshire, Dorset, Northamptonshire and North Somerset are the only local authority areas that meet the government’s ‘expansion principles’ for […]

Child refugees: One school’s international solution for new arrivals

While schools and councils across the country deal with the challenge of mid-term arrivals, officials in the London borough of Wandsworth can call upon the expertise of one institution thanks to a scheme set up a decade ago. At Southfields academy, an “international group” takes responsibility for all child refugees who arrive in the south […]

Schools prepare for arrival of ‘hundreds’ of child refugees

Schools are being told to prepare for the arrival of hundreds of child refugees over the coming months following the closure of the Jungle camp in Calais. According to councils, more than 200 unaccompanied young refugees arrived last month after the camp’s closure in October. But local government leaders have called for better support and […]

DfE hires grammar school critic as head of strategy and social mobility

The Department for Education has appointed Emran Mian, the director of the Social Market Foundation think tank and a critic of grammar schools, as its new head of strategy. Mian will take up the post of director of strategy and social mobility next year, filling a void left by the department’s former strategy boss Tom […]

Teacher pay: 1 per cent rise will cost schools 拢250m, warns government

An increase in teachers’ pay of just 1 per cent would cost schools an additional £250 million next year, the government has warned. Justine Greening, the education secretary, said earlier this year that there was a “strong case” for a continued 1 per cent cap on teacher pay rises in 2017-18. The same rise was applied in 2014, 2015 […]

Minister to ‘accelerate’ proposals for changes to sex education

Ministers have suggested that sex and relationships education could be made statutory in schools through upcoming legislation due early next year. Edward Timpson, the children’s minister, told MPs yesterday that officials would be ordered to “accelerate” work on proposals for changing sex education so they can be circulated in the near future. I will ask officials to […]

RSC Guide: Janet Renou, the North of England

When Janet Renou gave her first interview to Schools Week in 2014, just 13 per cent of schools in her region were academies, well below the national figure of 20 per cent. More than two years later, that proportion has sneaked up to 19 per cent, still well short of the new national figure of […]

RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands

Christine Quinn is the newest regional schools commissioner, filling the shoes of Pank Patel who presided over significant growth in the number of academies in the region. Quinn, the former executive principal and chief executive of Ninestiles academy trust in Birmingham, has been in post for less than two months. She was given the job […]