More from this theme Recent articles “Where do failed headteachers go?” That was the question keeping Patrick Cozier awake at night as he awaited publication of a critical newspaper article about Highgate Wood School back in 2009. The piece detailed how the school, where he had worked as head for... Read more

More from this theme Recent articles Reduced demand has forced five of the National Tutoring Programme’s biggest providers to close or scale back their operations – despite government promises that the flagship scheme would create a “vibrant tutoring market”. Ministers said tutoring would become a “permanent feature” of the system... Read more

More from this theme Recent articles Ministers face questions about how they will maintain independent financial oversight of academies after announcing they will close the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and beef up the role of powerful regional directors. The government announced this week that the ESFA will be... Read more

More from this theme Recent articles An explosion in the number of children with special needs is prompting mainstream schools to join multi-academy trusts that specialise in SEND. Billingborough Primary in Lincolnshire has been given the go-ahead to join a trust to work with its team of special needs experts.... Read more

More from this theme Recent articles A £1.5 million-a-year government trial to help disadvantaged children and those with SEND learn to sing or play an instrument has been launched. Revealed in the previous government’s national plan for music education in 2022, the scheme is expected to support almost 1,000 youngsters... Read more

More from this theme Recent articles Teachers at a west London school can sleep in and savour a fry-up after they were given two periods off every week in a move dubbed the “Holy Grail of recruitment and retention”. Andrew O’Neill, the headteacher of All Saints Catholic College in Ladbroke... Read more