Covid Teacher sickness absence soars in wake of pandemic More than 3.2 million working days were missed due to illness last year Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools Record rate of teacher departures as 40,000 quit sector last year New workforce data for 2022 shows 7,800 more teachers quit the profession for reasons other than retirement Amy Walker 2y Amy Walker 2y Free school meals Two million children now eligible for free school meals Eligibility has increased by 40 per cent since the Covid pandemic began Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Recruitment and retention 7 bleak findings that show school recruitment crisis is intensifying Researchers warn of ‘perfect storm’ of teacher shortages, career moves and a tight labour market Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Ofsted We’ll ‘take action’ to support heads, says Keegan after Perry family meeting But no further details of the government’s plan have been released Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools New school safeguarding guidance emphasises online safety duties Move follows suicide of pupil Frankie Thomas who accessed harmful material on school iPad Amy Walker 2y Amy Walker 2y Recruitment Exclusive DfE ‘assessing’ potential teacher recruitment hit from university marking boycott Government tells ITT providers it’s ‘assessing the scale and likelihood’ of potential disruption to recruits waiting on degrees amid… Amy Walker 2y Amy Walker 2y Covid Covid legacy will ‘damage prospects of a generation’, warn MPs Committee warns pandemic will ‘entrench disadvantage’ without further intervention from government Amy Walker 2y Amy Walker 2y Private schools Labour’s private school VAT raid sums may be £600m out, says think tank EDSK says calculations are ‘flawed’, but Labour defends costings of plan to remove charitable status Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Schools Prestigious sixth-form drops ‘sir’ and ‘miss’ over cultural misogyny The term ‘miss’ conjures up images of Edwardian shop assistants and plays into a ‘gendered view’ of the world,… Amy Walker 2y Amy Walker 2y Teacher strikes Unions plan joint school staff meetings to ‘maximise’ strike votes In ‘almost unprecedented show of solidarity’, unions ask all schools to adopt approach in ‘battle for the very future… Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y SEND review Revealed: The 21 experts to oversee roll-out of SEND reforms Board members tasked with holding government to account for ‘timely development and improvement’ of SEND system Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 1,002 Older
