News 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 5y John Dickens 5y News 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 5y James Carr 5y News 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 5y Schools Week Reporter 5y News 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News 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 5y John Dickens 5y News 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News Exclusive 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 5y Freddie Whittaker 5y News 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 5y Schools Week Reporter 5y News 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 5y James Carr 5y Newer 1 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 975 Older