Movers and Shakers Movers and shakers: St Christopher’s, Careers and Enterprise Company, Browne Jacobson This week’s movers and shakers include a PhD student and a former ice-cream van operator Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo School meals No such thing as a long lunch: 1 in 10 schools provide under 30 minutes New study shows food served up is ‘poorly received’ and 20% of kids do their only exercise in school Jack Dyson 3mo Jack Dyson 3mo News SEND monitoring inspections to restart this term, says Ofsted Education committee MPs also hear calls for school exclusion investigations and schools bill fears Schools Week Reporter 3mo Schools Week Reporter 3mo News Restraint guidance needs training standards and more ‘precise’ language – EHRC Equalities watchdog warns draft DfE guidance on reasonable force could leave teachers and children in ‘jeopardy’ Rhi Storer 3mo Rhi Storer 3mo Schools Schools wanted for AI lesson planning trial Education Endowment Foundation study to assess whether AI tool can save teachers time while not compromising on quality Rhi Storer 3mo Rhi Storer 3mo SEND Investigation Special school delays undermine deficit reduction efforts Nine councils – nearly a quarter of those on the controversial safety valve scheme – have flagged delays Freddie Whittaker 3mo Chaminda Jayanetti 3mo News ‘Sleepless nights’ over funding and lost Ofsted hope: NAHT conference diary ‘If we fail to invest in education, we fail to invest in our future’ Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo News Academy bailouts should come with merger clause, demands Agnew It comes after two trusts were given multi-million pound lifelines after racking up £600,000 deficits Jack Dyson 3mo Jack Dyson 3mo Exams British Sign Language GCSE ‘unlikely before 2028’ The Department for Education initially hoped the qualification would be launched in autumn this year Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted mulls report card inspection delay Inspectorate considering pushing back the roll-out of new inspections until 2026 Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Maths hubs Exclusive Maths hubs funding drops (but DfE says it’s not a cut) Leaders say the funding fall could result in redundancies and less support for teachers Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo News Teacher apprenticeship length cut to line up with school year Length of postgraduate course to be slashed from 12 to nine months from August, DfE confirms Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo Newer 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 988 Older
