The government’s pledge to pump an extra £20 billion into the NHS will put pressure on the Department for Education, MPs were warned today. Luke Sibieta, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the parliamentary education committee that the policy announcement “poses quite severe challenges” for the DfE and other ... read more

Nearly half of England’s secondary faith schools prioritise religious families – of any denomination – over the non-religious, according to new research. While the figure is 40 per cent overall, Catholic state secondary schools are the worst offenders. In a survey of admissions policies at 637 faith schools, Humanists UK ... read more

The best local authorities should be allowed to take schools back from underperforming multi-academy trusts, according to a leading think-tank. Academies do not perform better than maintained schools, and the government must find a better way to handle poor performance, the Education Policy Institute’s latest report has found. The EPI ... read more

There is no difference in the performance of multi-academy trusts and groups of local authority schools, a new report from the Education Policy Institute has found. The report, which compared school performance and pupil improvement at every trust and local authority in England at both key stage two and four, makes ... read more

Academy trusts are “disproportionately represented” among the lowest-performing primary schools groups, according to new research by the Education Policy Institute. The EPI compared school performance and pupil improvement at every academy trust and local authority in England. The research, which looked at performance at key stages two and four, took into ... read more

The Department for Education has revealed the names of two more schools that will deliver its new technical qualifications. These are George Abbot School, a secondary school in Surrey that is part of the Guildford Education Partnership, and Priestley College, a 16-to-19 academy that belongs to The Challenge Academy Trust, ... read more

A coalition of trade unions and 39 local authorities have written to the education secretary to warn of “dangerously inadequate funding” for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The School Cuts Coalition was first formed in November 2016 and now includes NEU, NAHT, ASCL, Unison, GMB and Unite. In a ... read more

Our blog reviewer of the week is Harry Fletcher-Wood, an associate dean at the Institute for Teaching The trolls under the bridge: Leadership resilience @TheHopefulHT, Hannah Wilson hit the front pages over half term when an angry parent’s complaint to a local newspaper reached the national press, and then the trolls. ... read more

A local authority has prevented an academy for high-needs pupils from closing, saving them from a 45-mile journey to their new school. Unity Academy – Fenland in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire will now be moved to another site in the town as part of a development which will also house a new ... read more

Tens of thousands more teachers will move into overseas jobs during the coming decade as international schools seek to boost the number of staff they recruit from the UK. International schools plan to hire an additional 145,000 teachers from the British isles, according to ISC Research. This would more than ... read more

Tens of thousands more teachers will move into overseas jobs during the coming decade as international schools seek to boost the number of staff they recruit from the UK. International schools plan to hire an additional 145,000 teachers from the British isles, according to ISC Research. This would more than ... read more

High-quality alternative provision for vulnerable pupils in years 12 and 13 is too scarce and should be expanded, the chair of the education select committee has said. Robert Halfon told delegates at alternative provision academy trust TBAP’s annual conference that he was “shocked” by how little post-16 alternative provision there ... read more

In a warm marquee tent on Wednesday, I was one of four people debating a motion: “Academic selection is wrong at 11, and it is still wrong at 18.” Having spent the past two years debating the considerable evidence against grammar schools, my arguments on the first part of ... read more

A review of financial management and governance at the London-based Silver Birch Academy Trust has revealed serious failings, including a trip to the other side of the world for senior leaders that cost almost twice as much as the going rat. The trust, which runs four primary schools in Walthamstow, ... read more

Schools have ineffective behaviour management strategies because they want a “quick fix” to a common disorder but don’t understand the neurology behind it. Some teachers don’t know how to manage “conduct disorder” – a mental condition which causes disruptive and sometimes violent behaviour in pupils – because they don’t know ... read more