The gossip: week of April 23rd

“The gossip” is a new reporting strand on Education Uncovered, and at the moment a bit of an experiment. I am getting so many interesting tip-offs, I need a format for processing and reporting on them which is perhaps less detailed/multi-sourced than you might find in a conventional news story on the site, or even in our diary column.

Instead, here you will find snippets of information, sometimes with the institution concerned anonymised to reflect the slightly more provisional nature of the story. But I suspect readers are going to find it interesting, so let’s get going with it….

Thursday, April 26^th

Schools have been inundating the Department for Education will applications to take on teaching school status, with an opportunity to boost their budgets in the face of the funding crisis an important factor in this demand, Education Uncovered has been told.

The numbers taking part in the latest round of the scheme has then, in turn, provoked a knock-on effect, with the DfE repeatedly putting back the announcement on which bids have been successful, with this not expected, now, until mid-June.