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17 May 2026

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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

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Ofsted ‘confident’ schools can’t predict inspections using website downloads

But a firm insists the practice still works for its clients

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

2d | Ofsted
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Secondary English curriculum ‘crowds out’ reading for pleasure

'Teach for the test' and a focus on phonics are taking the fun out of reading, say experts

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2d | Curriculum
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Ministers scrap physics and languages bursaries for foreign trainees

Experts warn this is 'not a time for scaling back' recruitment tactics, and criticise surprise mid-year change

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

5d | Recruitment and retention
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NEU to formally ballot teachers on strike action

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson blasts move as 'massively premature'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

6d | Schools
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Attendance and behaviour will remain linked, says Ofsted

Union boss warns schools will continue to be punished and parents confused

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DfE ‘ignores’ special school staff in annual workforce forecasts

Lack of specific data is 'mind-boggling' as the SEND reforms loom and special schools are over-stretched

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

1w | Inclusion
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‘Protect and nurture’ university role in teacher training, says outgoing UCET boss

James Noble-Rogers reflects on decades advocating for university teacher training departments

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2w | Profile
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Government-funded ‘Get into Teaching’ events scrapped by DfE

The department quietly updated its website to say it had 'made the decision not to run own-brand events'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

2w | Recruitment and retention
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Supply staff agency fee caps: What schools need to know

New framework will help tackle 'exorbitant' supplier fees charged by some agencies

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2w | Academies
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Ofsted: More inclusive schools more likely to be graded down, analysis suggests

Analysis of more than 650 Ofsted reports renews concern around use of 'crude' national averages

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2w | Ofsted