Teacher workload, staffing shortages and competing priorities are stretching schools’ capacity to provide mentors for trainee teachers, a survey has found. In the latest...
A government-funded speech and language screening initiative found an unexpected proportion of young children have unidentified needs, an evaluation report has said. The Early...
Ofsted has refuted claims that its new report cards are being written using AI, following concerns over “generic” wording. An investigation revealed the same...
Every primary school publishes a pupil premium strategy. Inspectors read them. Governors scrutinise them. Leaders devote hours to drafting and updating them. But are...
More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, exposing a “significant gap” in its...
Flexible working is increasingly common in many workplaces. But the adoption of flexible practices in schools has been slow and patchy. For many leaders,...
The government has named the remaining 36 lead schools for its behaviour and attendance hubs programme, completing the list of 93 settings that will...
Following breakdowns in relationships between schools and parents, Victoria Hatton suggests policy and legal changes from government that could rebuild cohesion It’s time we...