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DfE to strengthen school safeguarding lead roles to help vulnerable pupils

The government plans to look at how it can strengthen the role of designated safeguarding leads in schools to…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Schools running 3-year GCSEs twice as likely to be ‘inadequate’, new report finds

Ofsted has been warned by a former education secretary not to undermine academy freedoms “by the back door” in…

James Carr
James Carr
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Four in 10 LGBT+ teachers experience homophobia, biphobia or transphobia, warns NASUWT

More than four in ten teachers who identify as LGBT+ have personally experienced homophobia, biphobia or transphobia at work…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Variation requests soar as primaries downsize, and 6 other OSA annual report findings

The official in charge of regulating schools’ admissions arrangements has published her annual report. Shan Scott, the chief schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EEF research to investigate impact of three-year GCSEs

The Education Endowment Foundation has commissioned research into whether teaching GCSEs over three years boosts pupils’ grades. The charity…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE dismisses ‘unrepresentative’ Ofsted school funding study

The Department for Education has dismissed the findings of a damning Ofsted report on school funding, claiming it is…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Ten things we learned from Ofsted’s school funding study

Ofsted has finally published its long-awaited research into the impact of funding pressures on schools. The study was not…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual orders exam boards to publish qualification costs

Exam boards will be required to publish the costs of qualifications on their websites to “create a more level…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofqual consults on new ‘clearer’ malpractice and maladministration guidance

The exams regulator Ofqual wants to replace its current guidance on how exam boards should tackle malpractice and maladministration,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School staff should look after ‘every penny like their own’, says academy trust CEO

School staff should treat “every penny” of funding as if it was their own and apply the same “discipline”…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spielman’s school funding blog post: The full text

Ofsted’s chief inspector Amanda Spielman sparked controversy yesterday over several claims in a blog post outlining the impact of…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Schools ‘reducing curriculum breadth’ because of funding pressures, says Amanda Spielman

Schools are “responding to funding pressure by reducing curriculum breadth”, the chief inspector of schools has warned. In a…

James Carr
James Carr