Ofsted More schools get positive Ofsted scores after headline grades ditched First data on inspections without overall judgments shows rises across behaviour, personal development and leadership categories Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2mo Attendance 95%+ attendance almost doubles odds of GCSE pass DfE research finds missing just 10 days of year 11 halves the odds of getting a grade 5 in… Rhi Storer 2mo Rhi Storer 2mo Sponsored post Sponsored Turbo boost your pupil outcomes with Teach First Finding new teaching talent for your school can be time consuming and costly. Especially when you want to be… SWAdvertorial 2mo Teach First 2mo Arts education DfE plans ‘National Centre for Arts and Music Education’ Ministers also announce plans for a ‘digital, AI and technology task and finish group’ to advise pupils on AI Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo News Schools can afford less than half of proposed 2.8% pay rise, admits DfE ‘Headroom’ in next year’s budget only leaves enough for an increase of 1.3 per cent, official government analysis finds Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo News £1bn for schools to cover national insurance hike But some leaders report the funding falls up to 35 per cent short of covering the rise in costs Schools Week Reporter 2mo Schools Week Reporter 2mo Curriculum review Curriculum review signals primary content cut and fewer GCSE exams Interim report also signals changes to the EBacc and a subject-by-subject review amid concerns over balance of content Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo Curriculum Exams volume, EBacc and ‘improving’ SATs: 14 curriculum review reforms The interim curriculum review report has landed – here’s the 14 key things school leaders need to know … Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo Lost learning Lost learning crisis: 10 solutions to keep kids in class Schools with ‘least representative’ cohorts should be banned from growing and more transparency over pupil moves are called for Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2mo Attendance Poorer pupils’ higher absences ‘entirely explain’ growth in attainment gap Disadvantage gap would be four months smaller at age 16 if absence rates between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils were… Rhi Storer 2mo Rhi Storer 2mo SEND How to solve SEND? 13 sector solutions… The education committee received an ‘unprecedented’ number of responses to its SEND inquiry. Here’s what we learned from it… John Dickens 2mo John Dickens 2mo SEND ‘I’d like to see SEND label retired’, says inclusion tsar Tom Rees DfE inclusion adviser also spoke of problems with the current ‘medicalised model’ of special educational needs support Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 2mo Newer 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 974 Older