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
Freddie Whittaker
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
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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
Rhi Storer
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
John Dickens
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
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Curriculum

EBacc may be ‘constraining choices’, curriculum review chair says

Curriculum and assessment review chair outlines areas in ‘need of further attention’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Politics

Revealed: The forgotten schools policies

‘Well overdue’ fire safety guidance update among seven missing government consultation responses

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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
Schools Week Reporter
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
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Ofsted reform critics want ‘low-accountability system’, claims chief inspector

Sir Martyn Oliver says new report cards ‘are not and never were going to bring about the end of…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
School funding

School budgets much worse than we thought, say leaders

Need to cover the rest of this year’s pay rise means £1.3m funding announced at autumn budget won’t cover…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Governance

Trust makes schools shareholders so ‘their voice always heard’

Biggest trust gives local governing body chairs ‘share certificates’ so they have vote on trust-wide decisions

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson