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Reforms to teachers' pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Chief schools inspector says heads will be forced to choose – small pupil groups or well paid staff
Star academy group misspent public money on lavish expenses
Friday 17 May 2013
Report condemns a charity running 35 schools for ‘procedural irregularities’ and ‘weak’ controls
Treasury missing MP letters response target
Monday 13 May 2013
Almost half the letters sent to the Treasury by MPs and peers are not responded to within the target time of 15 working days, figures revealed today.
80% of head teachers losing confidence in GCSEs as lack of trust in grades is revealed
Friday 03 May 2013
Ofqual survey shows two out of five heads and teachers believing at least a quarter of pupils have been given wrong marks
Chalk Talk: Two-and-a-half cheers for Gove's reforms from the history boys
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Spare a thought for Professor Jonathan Clark, professor of British history at the University of Kansas and one of three eminent panellists debating the proposed new history curriculum at a seminar organised by the right-of-centre thinktank Politeia last week.
'Sheer scale of prescription' under Michael Gove's planned new curriculum will turn pupils off science lessons, warn business leaders
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Business leaders have thrown their weight behind critics of Education Secretary Michael Gove’s planned new curriculum by warning the “sheer scale of prescription” will turn pupils off science lessons.
Politicians should stay out of schools, says ex-curriculum head
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Politicians should be stopped from meddling in school policy and using visits among pupils as photo shoots, the former head of the national curriculum said last night.
Both sides could learn from each other in dispute between Gove and teachers
Sunday 14 April 2013
It is perhaps no surprise to find Education Secretary Michael Gove and hundreds of teachers at loggerheads over his proposed national curriculum reforms.
Ban for principal who ignored sex abuse claims
Saturday 13 April 2013
The former head of a school where a teacher sexually abused pupils has been banned from teaching.
Chalk Talk: How old do you have to be to be considered a young teacher?
Wednesday 03 April 2013
They say 40 is the new 60 as we get to grips with our new ageing population – and the message seems not to have been lost on the National Union of Teachers (NUT).
Government's free schools are opening where they're not needed, teachers say - while primary schools face shortage 'crisis'
Monday 01 April 2013
One in five of the Government’s flagship free schools are being opened in areas where there is no need for more school places, new research has revealed.
'Gradgrind' Michael Gove's new curriculum is 'so boring
that truancy will rise,' teachers warn
Sunday 31 March 2013
Bored pupils will play truant from school if Education Secretary Michael Gove goes ahead with his planned new “back to basics” national curriculum, teachers warned today.
Gove's new National Curriculum demands too much, too young
Thursday 28 March 2013
It is not the underperformance of teachers that is harming young people's chances, but broader inequality in society. Mr Gove's proposals are change for the worse
Will Michael Gove's high-stakes final exams put 'girl power' into reverse?
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Education Secretary Michael Gove’s exam reforms could discriminate against girls, teachers warned today.
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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