Ofsted plans to publish 'toolkits' to explain how the five new grades will be awarded in proposed report cards - but do they ...

Merger plans that would create England’s second biggest MAT have been given the greenlight, after being referred to ministers to rule on. Delta Academies Trust boss Paul Tarn took over Coast and Vale ...

Report cards will judge schools on eight areas, plus safeguarding. Early years and sixth forms will also have their own ...

Schools must record every “significant” use of reasonable force against pupils and report them to parents “as soon as ...

The schools bill may force academies to apply for permission from the education secretary to “build a bike shed”, it has been ...

And all of this means that improvement at the school level isn’t wholly codifiable. It’s not quite ‘voodoo’ – probably equal ...

The first 20 of the government’s new school improvement advisers have been appointed – with 17 from academy trusts and just ...

Recent reports that senior inspectors within Ofsted – the very people who will have to implement this new framework – are also deeply concerned about the nature of the reforms only serves to reinforce ...

As an initial response to the scathing criticism levelled at its previous arrangements, Ofsted and the Labour government did ...

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson addressed sector leaders at the Centre for Social Justice think tank this morning, ...

The NLE system was only reformed a few years ago. Under the plans, the DfE will launch so-called school profiles. The new ...

This week’s movers and shakers include a keen snowboarder, a comic collector, former stand-up comedian and a leader with a ...