Grammar Schools

Warning over grammar’s plan to open ‘affiliate’ schools overseas

The plan skirts close to what is permissible in academy funding rules, finance experts have warned 

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
SEND

New apprenticeship to equip teaching assistants on SEND

Move gives schools more options to spend training funding, but unions warn apprentices ‘must be paid at the going…

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Exams

SEND pupils now allowed to listen to music during exams

Schools will also be able to use mental health support service referral letters to apply for extra support

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Management information systems

Major academy trust settles three-year MIS legal battle

Bromcom filed a High Court claim against Lift Schools after missing out on a £2m deal to supply its…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Trusts want governance split from Ofsted leadership judgments

Trusts fear system has masked ‘weak governance’ and call for Labour to u-turn on safeguarding inspections

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Sponsored post

Cutting-edge technology allows students to hold virtual conversations with Holocaust survivors.

Testimony 360, the new programme from the Holocaust Educational Trust uses innovative technology to bring the people and places…

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Curriculum review

‘If we put things in we have to take things out’, says curriculum review chair

Professor Becky Francis acknowledges complaints of a ‘very overstuffed curriculum’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Sponsored post

ASDAN’s digital future: Developing a dynamic, learner-led curriculum to empower learners with diverse needs.

ASDAN’s new CEO, Melissa Farnham, outlines a dynamic future for the charity and awarding organisation aligned to the government’s…

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Solutions

Could ‘teacher in residence’ secondments help attract ‘gen Z’?

Study finds those entering the workforce today don’t want ‘linear’ careers and crave a good work-life balance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted logos banned for this year’s inspections, and 9 other handbook changes

Watchdog updates its guidance for inspections of schools following ‘Big Listen’ response

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Movers and Shakers

Headteachers’ Roundtable names new co-chairs as Derbyshire steps down

Caroline Barlow and Keziah Featherstone named as new joint co-chairs

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Trusts look to grow to weather falling rolls storm, survey suggests

One in seven CEOs eye retirement as 45% of trusts expect to grow and dip into reserves this year,…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson