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 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo 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 4mo Schools Week Reporter 4mo 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 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo 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 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo 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 4mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4mo 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 4mo Rhi Storer 4mo 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 4mo John Dickens 4mo 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 4mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 4mo Curriculum EBacc may be ‘constraining choices’, curriculum review chair says Curriculum and assessment review chair outlines areas in ‘need of further attention’ Jack Dyson 4mo Jack Dyson 4mo Politics Revealed: The forgotten schools policies ‘Well overdue’ fire safety guidance update among seven missing government consultation responses Freddie Whittaker 4mo Freddie Whittaker 4mo 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 4mo Schools Week Reporter 4mo 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 4mo Jack Dyson 4mo Newer 1 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 982 Older