Schools pay almost 100% mark-up for supply teachers – DfE study Average secondary supply teacher pay is 拢150 a day, but schools shell out 拢291
Building company ISG鈥檚 collapse stalls school rebuilds Construction of new classrooms halts as ISG Construction Limited enters administration
Councils brace for another big rise in SEND transport and admin costs Local authorities expect to spend 拢1.5 billion on transport for SEND pupils this year
Labour conference 2024: Bridget Phillipson’s speech in full The education secretary addressed party members at their annual gathering in Liverpool
Phillipson wants school-based nurseries open next year under 拢15m capital scheme Up to 300 primary schools will be handed funding in the spring to convert empty classrooms
Minister ‘keen to learn’ from Khan’s free school meals policy Stephen Morgan reveals ‘live conversation’ in government over potential future ‘interventions’
Leaders fear Ofsted ‘running away’ with report card design Unions call for DfE to take charge amid fears the watchdog is ‘reforming itself’
鈥楬eads have felt disrespected, but now it鈥檚 time for solutions鈥� The new leaders of the Headteachers鈥� Roundtable speak to Schools Week about how the sector feels it has been marginalised, and why new ministers will have to rebuild that trust
‘If we put things in we have to take things out’, says curriculum review chair Professor Becky Francis acknowledges complaints of a ‘very overstuffed curriculum’