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 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo 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 3mo Schools Week Reporter 3mo 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 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo 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 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo 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 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo 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 3mo Rhi Storer 3mo 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 3mo John Dickens 3mo 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 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Curriculum EBacc may be ‘constraining choices’, curriculum review chair says Curriculum and assessment review chair outlines areas in ‘need of further attention’ Jack Dyson 3mo Jack Dyson 3mo Politics Revealed: The forgotten schools policies ‘Well overdue’ fire safety guidance update among seven missing government consultation responses Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo News Search launched to find best school inclusion solutions Call for evidence to find ‘practical and scalable solutions’ for mainstream school inclusion Schools Week Reporter 3mo Schools Week Reporter 3mo News RISE teams to prioritise English and maths, reception, inclusion and attainment, says Phillipson Education secretary tells leaders to ban phones in all classrooms and the ‘inclusion vs standards compromise’ doesn’t exist Jack Dyson 3mo Jack Dyson 3mo Newer 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 977 Older