Why is art, craft and design education so vital to our culture, our society, our economy and ourselves? The reasons are myriad, meaningful, complex and fiscal says Lesley Butterworth.

Good contract management Finance Negotiating contracts and managing supplier relationships can be a daunting prospect, particularly for school business managers, embarking on the procurement process ...

What makes educational school trips successful? Educational Trips The summer blockades in Calais caused major disruption at a peak time in the school trip calendar, leading to disappointment, cost and ...

Managing risk in academies Finance For any organisation, including academies, risk can be defined as the uncertainty that an event or an action will adversely affect their ability to achieve their ...

Places People Play Sports Getting more people playing and enjoying sport is the cornerstone of Sport England’s work. In January, we announced our new five-year youth and community sport strategy that ...

Teacher Tapp’s 2024-25 end of year report reveals that student absence was a major worry, with 69 per cent of primary and 80 ...

The government has announced an extra £18 million for local councils in England so they can rollout early intervention child ...

The decline of drama and the arts in schools Drama There have been increasing concerns that the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) and Progress 8 has put arts subjects at risk, with ...

Speeding up school trips to Europe Educational Trips A collaborative boarder initiative is making it easier for school groups to visit Europe. The School Travel Forum explains how schools can benefit ...

Comment: DfE's Jennifer Williams on procurement Procurement The start of a new school year provides us the ideal opportunity to challenge and break our buying habits, writes Jennifer Williams, ...

Are our schools clean enough? Many schools have opened up about how they have to take on additional roles such as cleaning as the budgets to pay for such services has decreased. Education Business ...

England has seen the biggest year-on-year school attendance improvement for a decade, with figures showing that more than 140 ...