Teacher strikes

Teacher strikes: Unions receive pay offer as DfE talks conclude

Pay offer includes £1k one-off payment for this year and 4.3% rise for most teachers in 2023-24, but union…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Why Bring Video-Game Development To Education? 

Level-up! How teaching game design gives students a voice and helps create more engaged, STEM-loving classrooms.

GameMaker
GameMaker
Sponsored post

Developing Internal Alternative Provision? How The Difference Inclusive Leadership Course supported our school

The Inclusive Leadership Course is a national programme for mainstream senior leaders of inclusion – providing a diagnostic lens…

The Difference
The Difference
Academies

Free schools to open in areas with growing surplus places

Findings ‘demonstrate the need for a more coherent system’, say council chiefs, but trusts say schools still needed

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Alternative provision

Trusts queue to open alternative provision free schools

The schools form part of the Department for Education’s SEND and AP improvement plan

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academies

‘Inadequate’ UTC warned it could be rebrokered to new trust

DfE issues termination warning notice to University Collegiate School in Bolton

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


Ofsted

Ofsted was aware of ‘gaming’ school inspection alerts

But watchdog refuses to say if it has acted to curb systems that monitor web hits to predict visits

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Heads say ‘enough is enough’ in Ofsted’s week of reckoning

Spielman rebuffs inspection pause calls following death of Ruth Perry, but wants to ‘defuse anxiety’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Ofsted rejects calls to halt inspections after week of turmoil

Spielman said debate about removing grades was ‘legitimate’, but stopping inspections ‘not in children’s best interests’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Plummeting pupil numbers turn tables on place planning

Over 1.1m places have been created since 2010, but pupil numbers are expected to drop by over 900,000 in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Teacher training ‘fragmented’ as reforms leave cold spots

Research finds some areas collaborate on CPD and through hubs, while others are ‘balkanised’

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

7 NFER stats revealing how abysmal teacher recruitment is getting worse

New report shows primary applications have plunged, with 14 of 17 secondary subjects on track to underrecruit

Amy Walker
Amy Walker