Funding

The DfE must issue extra funding to help some schools fund any teacher pay rise for 2024-25 or risk redundancies and reduced provision, prominent MAT leaders have warned

The number of schools having to cut teachers and teaching assistants because of funding difficulties has been branded ‘disgraceful’

This week’s essential education news includes Capita losing the contract to run Sats and a warning about high absence among this year’s GCSE students

The way schools are funded is fundamentally broken – it’s time to put it right, says Samuel Skerritt of the Confederation of School Trusts

The CST’s proposals include a new funding formula covering minimum operating costs for all schools, including SEND and AP provision

EPI produces major report assessing performance of different types of school groups

Most parents would rather see school funding increased than have their taxes cut, a Parentkind poll shows

The chief executive of 34-school Truro and Penwith Academy Trust discusses her own school days, the challenge of running schools in isolated areas and why we need a fairer funding system

The chief executive of the Cabot Learning Federation reveals how creating clusters has helped the trust to promote both collaboration and school autonomy as it has grown from 2 to 35 academies

The DfE is offering a multi-million-pound contract to supply school resource management advisers – but doubts have been raised about the SRMA cost-cutting scheme

Hits to primary and secondary funding streams could force school mergers or closures, Education Policy Institute research suggests

Many state school students don’t have access to work experience – and this is a barrier to entry into top universities, report warns