The Department for Education is open to creating more specialist provision packages as part of its plan for a framework in which “no children will fall through the gap”. These packages, which will set ...

Union also considers indicative ballot on industrial action if more is not done to mitigate the impact of inspection on wellbeing ...

Anxiety over periods is a major issue for girls, as Youth Sport Trust survey highlights gender divide in PE and physical activity participation levels ...

A researcher shares lessons from a study of seven schools where disadvantaged pupils beat national averages for reading and writing at the end of key stage 2 ...

A new requirement for trusts to work together brings up the question of how to do that well. Professor Michael Green breaks down four approaches to collaboration that deliver real impact ...

The experience of colleges with government pay controls suggests academy trusts will be left in limbo waiting for executive ...

School will take over an existing IB setting in Gurugram, with executive head Dr Christopher Stevens suggesting it is the first of more overseas moves ...

Sarah Bennett, who is the current CEO of Inspiring Futures through Learning, will lead the new 43-school trust ...

It may feel as though change is the only constant in education policy, but looking to predictable undercurrents could help schools to pre-empt the next political shift, writes Loic Menzies ...

Amid fierce criticism of its school inspections, Ofsted has been asked by education secretary Lucy Powell to go ‘back to the drawing board’. John Roberts assesses whether it can find a path out of thi ...

An independent report into the new Ofsted framework offers positive signs that inspections are doing what they were designed to do, despite identifying areas to improve, argues Lee Owston ...

NEU calls for tests to be scrapped after survey highlights teachers’ fears that they will narrow the curriculum and crank up ...