School, which told community it struggled to find money for heating, finds £200,000 for legal case against parents

Schools on strike over Catholic multi-academy trust’s alleged 20 per cent-plus topslice

25 June 2025

Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust said to be charging schools for services local authority would be providing for free.

String of schools featured by Education Uncovered have high teacher turnover rates, official DfE data show

23 June 2025

School-by-school statistics show high teacher departure rates in some institutions.

Scrap the “dual science route” at GCSE, Association for Science Education proposes, in broad-ranging critique of curriculum and assessment regimes

20 June 2025

Education Uncovered is looking ahead to the publication of the government’s final Curriculum and Assessment Review report, in the autumn, by covering responses from subject associations. Detailed subject-by-subject findings did not appear in the interim report, published in March. So it seems important to document what subject associations have been saying, especially as some of their conclusions appear to contradict the review’s overall pledge of an “evolution, not revolution” approach to reform.
In the first, then, of what I hope will be an ongoing series, I report below on the submission of the Association for Science Education.

Teachers at super-strict academy told to hand out 25 detentions a week - whatever their pupils’ behaviour

18 June 2025

Staff also told to award reward points - but to "sanction" pupils who fail to "track the teacher," or who slump at their desks