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Digital assessment is already part of school life. Any teacher will tell you they are already using platforms such as AQA’s AlphaPlus and Stride...
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VAT on school fees, the end of charitable business rates relief, a big hike in national insurance contributions, falling pupil rolls. Whichever way you...
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For years, we have used “high standards” as shorthand for outcomes, culture and credibility. But too often we have allowed a quiet, corrosive loophole....
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The long-trailed and much-leaked SEND white paper has been published. The government is billing it as a “radical expansion of rights”. Yet on first...
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The white paper’s “experts at hand” plan is positive, while hints of reform for school performance measures echo the EPI’s feelings about current shortcomings,...
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This National Apprenticeship Week, an early-career teacher who took the postgraduate route and their mentor explain why more schools should consider apprenticeships. When it...
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Greater nuance in the first 100 new Ofsted reports published is welcome, but the new framework’s hardly the fairer grading system promised, says David...
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SEND capacity challenges go beyond 2014 reforms, and everything from more early-born children to more screen time could play a part says Rebecca Leek...
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AP brings particular challenges, so governors should look differently at risk, accountability, attendance and results, says Nicola Hall Alternative provision is often described as...
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Headlines about small schools “escaping” the DfE’s school improvement drive miss the point, writes Julie Kelly When a year group has eight pupils, a...
