The Local Government Association has today reiterated that councils may not be able to provide a school place for every child unless they are given additional powers, including the ability to force...
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said that the current accountability regime for schools is “confused and inconsistent” and could undermine improvements to the education system.
Councils will be unable to meet their legal duty to ensure all children have access to a school place unless academies expand to meet demand, the Local Government Association has warned today.
Ofsted’s annual report has revealed that underperforming secondary schools in England are concentrated in the North and Midlands, where over 400,000 children attend a secondary school rated as...
The school funding system is to be overhauled and sixth form colleges are to be allowed to become academies, exempting them from VAT, chancellor George Osborne has announced.
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said “amateurish” governance in schools must be improved, highlighting concerns about arrangements in nearly 500 schools in the last academic year.
High performing grant maintained schools should be given additional powers to take over struggling schools, including academies, the Local Government Association said today.
The London Borough of Croydon is to receive £102m from the European Investment Bank to improve schools across the borough, the first time that an EIB loan has been agreed for this purpose.
All but six of Scotland’s 32 councils are failing to comply with a six-year-old minimum recommended level of school clothing grants to disadvantaged families, and two have cut their payment...
An analysis of results at more than 150 academy schools in England has concluded that nearly half (44%) would be classed as “coasting” under the government’s proposed education reforms.
Chief education inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has raised concerns that schools and local authorities are not doing enough to track where pupils who leave school at unusual times of the year are going...
High-performing council schools should be able to sponsor struggling schools without taking on academy status, the Local Government Association has said.
The pupil premium policy, designed to help the most disadvantaged schoolchildren, is not identifying those who need it the most and is not being spent in the most “appropriate” way by...
Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
Creating a system of fair school admissions is never easy. But it is important that opportunities to attend more successful schools aren’t limited to those with the deepest pockets
‘Freedom’ from council control does not mean an abdication of responsibility. Academies and free schools need to improve their approaches to both governance and financial probity
The schools spending ringfence should be removed, to ease up the pressure on other departments. And there's evidence that educational standards need not suffer
The Welsh government appears complacent as school performance continues to deteriorate. Ministers need to think radically and should start by introducing some competition into the education system
