Aside from being a statutory obligation, teachers should see continued professional development (CPD) as an integral (and integrated) component of their role. A recent...
Chief executive, Saffron Academy Trust 19 May 2024, 5:00 Young lives, big ambitions: Transforming life chances for vulnerable children and teens By Anne Longfield...
A Surrey primary school is demanding a “lessons learnt review” from Ofsted after eight inspectors visited three times over two academic years. Inspectors first...
The government is “actively looking” at reforming the £10,000 place funding special schools receive for each child, which hasn’t risen once since being introduced...
Speak to most parents, teachers and school leaders and they’ll agree the current SEND system is broken. Budgets are spiralling out of control, outcomes...
Scrapping single-phrase Ofsted judgments would lead to civil servants, politicians and the media “drawing their own conclusions” about schools from the narrative in reports,...
Lawyers for a school which has taken Ofsted to court have slammed its “mystifying and frustrating refusal” to provide more detailed explanations for why...
The education secretary has said it will be “hard to guarantee” that government would fully fund a teacher pay rise, despite schools struggling with...
Ofsted will train inspectors on artificial intelligence use and explore how the technology can help the school watchdog to make “better decisions”. The government...