The consequences are predictable. Mainstream schools will struggle further with standards (particularly for children with SEND). There will be an increase in violence and disruption. More teachers and ...

School leaders have lambasted new Ofsted inspection toolkits as “cobbled together” and “a nonsense”. Under plans for new report cards, schools would be rated one of five, colour-coded judgments: ...

The government has abandoned a plan to abolish a rule capping the proportion of pupils oversubscribed free schools can select based on faith at 50 per cent and remove the block on new faith special ...

Plans to grade schools on up to 11 areas will make Ofsted’s “inability to accurately capture the complexity of a school far ...

The country’s biggest academy trusts now extract £200 million from their schools’ budgets to fund growing central teams.

Sir Ian Bauckham has been confirmed as the permanent chief regulator of exams watchdog Ofqual, the education secretary has ...

One clear positive from a reliability and consistency perspective is that ungraded inspections will no longer take place from ...

Education Mutual, run by Nick Hurn, the chief executive of the Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust (BWCT), offers staff ...

Academy trusts could be on the verge of going bust, a major report has warned, with even the biggest MATs taking a financial ...

Ofsted has launched a consultation on plans to reform its inspection framework and introduce new 'report cards' ...

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed four new non-executive board members to serve for the next three years.

Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver has said plans for new report cards are “revolutionary” for parents, and will “reset the bar” ...