Movers and Shakers Movers and shakers: Education Partnership Trust, CICES, Bury Council This week’s movers and shakers include an Olympic wrestler, a Lego collector and a former tree-logger Schools Week Reporter 3w Schools Week Reporter 3w Ofsted Exclusive Outdated Ofsted rule ‘inadequate’ for looked-after children ‘Crucial’ government guidance still refers to headline grades, despite them being scrapped over a year ago Freddie Whittaker 3w Freddie Whittaker and Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3w Academies Officials kept mum about academy probe as merger decided Revelation reopens debate around the transparency of important academy decisions Jack Dyson 3w Jack Dyson 3w Recruitment and retention Trust offers degree pathway to create ‘children’s workforce’ Reach Foundation to launch unit to provide ‘structural solutions’ to workforce recruitment and retention issues Ruth Lucas 3w Ruth Lucas 3w News SEND adviser admits reforms ‘taking longer than sector hoped’ Dame Christine Lenehan said government is ‘taking a while’ to ‘get it’s plans right’ Ruth Lucas 3w Ruth Lucas 3w Politics Kids’ school dinner protest leaves a bad taste NEU stunt involving primary pupils handing out leaflets on free school meals draws criticism Ruth Lucas 3w Ruth Lucas 3w Sponsored post Sponsored Retire Early, Live Fully: What Teachers Need to Consider First Specialist Financial Adviser, William Adams, from Wesleyan Financial Services discusses what teachers should be considering when it comes to… SWAdvertorial 3w Wesleyan 3w Politics Exclusive Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid Leaders say proposals fly in face of pre-election pledges to identify efficiencies and savings from Musk-style DOGE unit Jack Dyson 3w Jack Dyson 3w AI Exclusive ‘Deepfake’ teacher avatar plan to help pupils catch up Academy trust staff to use AI generator to create videos that look and sound just like them to introduce… Freddie Whittaker 3w Freddie Whittaker 3w Academies CEO gender pay gap halves after closing three years in a row But men still paid £5k more than women, CST study finds Jack Dyson 4w Jack Dyson 4w Ofsted Exclusive ASCL joins Ofsted preparation ‘cottage industry’ it once criticised Watchdog urges schools not to ‘spend limited resources’ on preparing for inspection after union launches paid-for webinars John Dickens 4w John Dickens 4w Phonics Disadvantaged pupils see drop in phonics results Pupils with SEN also less likely to meet ‘expected standard’, as overall progress since the pandemic plateaus Ruth Lucas 4w Ruth Lucas 4w Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1,006 Older