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School leaders have lambasted new Ofsted inspection toolkits as “cobbled together” and “a nonsense”. Under plans for new report cards, schools would be rated...
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Ministers announced last June they would repurpose empty primary school classrooms to create 100,000 childcare places in 3,334 settings The post Revealed: The first...
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A teacher union leader has reported a “surge” in requests for support from members facing redundancies, warning funding cuts will prompt more industrial action...
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One of the boldest and most ambitious responses to the disruption caused by the pandemic was introducing state-funded tutoring. The schemes launched during that...
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Using AI to judge student writing “has the potential to revolutionise assessment and decimate workload”, according to the findings of a trial of the...
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The government has abandoned a plan to abolish a rule capping the proportion of pupils oversubscribed free schools can select based on faith at...
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Plans to grade schools on up to 11 areas will make Ofsted’s “inability to accurately capture the complexity of a school far more apparent”,...
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Sir Ian Bauckham has been confirmed as the permanent chief regulator of exams watchdog Ofqual, the education secretary has announced. Parliament’s education select committee...
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Teachers and leaders have roundly criticised new Ofsted report cards – but parents are much more supportive of the proposed changes. A poll of...
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The boss of an academy trust that provides insurance cover for thousands of schools will now cover legal costs for staff who want to...
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The country’s biggest academy trusts now extract £200 million from their schools’ budgets to fund growing central teams. Analysis by Schools Week of the...
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Referrals to the government’s anti-terrorism Prevent scheme for young people will be “routinely” escalated so more vulnerable youngsters get support. A rapid learning review...
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The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed four new non-executive board members to serve for the next three years. Naomi Eisenstadt, Steve Crocker, Rebecca...
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The government will spend £2 million on a “writing framework” to “articulate a common approach to teaching”, as well as reading and writing professional...
