Teaching assistants

The EEF’s 5 tips for deploying teaching assistants

Government’s go-to body for showing what works in education updates guidance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
T-levels

DfE shaves £500m off T-levels spending

Huge cost adjustment caused by low student numbers, DfE claims

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Pensions

‘Unacceptable’ pension valuation waits spark legal battle

Divorced teachers ‘left in limbo’ as they endure months-long waits for vital TPS documents

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Pupil premium: 3 in 4 schools say lack of funding hampers support

And over half of settings expected to cut support when recovery premium funding ran out last year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

ASCL floats ‘3+ point’ grading scale for Ofsted and calls for reform delay

Union warns Ofsted’s five-point grading plan would leave ‘school and college leaders in a worse position than they are…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academy trust will press on with pension change despite government ‘threats’

England’s biggest MAT to go ahead with controversial plan to offer less generous pensions in return for higher salaries

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: ODST, Pearson, Northern, ISC

This week’s movers and shakers include a keen cyclist, former special constable and a school chef who once played…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Inclusion

Lost learning solutions: meet the inclusion trailblazers

As a landmark report into ‘lost learning’ shared how schools must boost inclusion, we spoke to some of the…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Academies

Council attempt to cut academies’ intake ‘absurd’, says MAT boss

CEO fears Labour reforms will give authorities hit by falling rolls more teeth to squeeze academy intakes

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

DfE scraps three more T-levels

Meanwhile Pearson scoops health and science contracts from NCFE

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Unions

Teacher aims to extinguish Wrack’s NASUWT leadership bid

History teacher Luke Akhurst seeks branch nominations in attempt to force a contested election

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

200 schools to get solar panels in £80m green project

Rollout to be completed in 12 months as government predicts savings of £25k per school

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson