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
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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
Rhi Storer
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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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Freddie Whittaker
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

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Schools Week Reporter


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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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
Rhi Storer
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
John Dickens
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
Lydia Chantler-Hicks