Movers and Shakers Movers and Shakers: Mercia trust, Baker Dearing, Impetus, IPPR This week’s movers include someone who contributed to a No 1 hit, a Harry Potter film extra and a… Schools Week Reporter 8mo Schools Week Reporter 8mo Tutoring Exclusive A ‘vibrant tutor market’? Providers wind down as NTP closes Tutoring providers scale down as the flagship catch-up scheme closes Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo Academies Exclusive Conflict questions as Labour moves to single regulator Former official claims closing ESFA ‘bad news for transparency and fairness’, but others welcome the change Jack Dyson 8mo Freddie Whittaker 8mo Academies, SEND Exclusive Schools look to SEND trusts over rising pupil need Mainstream schools increasingly looking for ‘specialist help’ to deal with youngsters’ needs Jack Dyson 8mo Jack Dyson 8mo GCSEs Exclusive Natural history GCSE stalls after official ‘block’ The proposed GCSE is one of a number of curriculum commitments currently up in the air post-election Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo Music £6m music pilot launched for disadvantaged children Cash injection expected to help charity ‘supercharge’ existing music programme Jack Dyson 8mo Jack Dyson 8mo Recruitment and retention Exclusive The school giving teachers a lie-in to boost retention Teachers should be treated like ‘elite athletes’ who need rest from an ‘exhausting’ job, head believes Lucas Cumiskey 8mo Lucas Cumiskey 8mo SEND Investigation Pause in Ofsted SEND inspections ‘opens accountability gap’ Suspending monitoring visits to councils with widespread failings ‘sets off alarm bells’ Samantha Booth 8mo Samantha Booth 8mo Academies Exclusive Turnaround academy trust stops turnarounds (for now) Outwood Grange moves away from ‘central view’ of education – and will even pause taking on the toughest schools Jack Dyson 8mo Jack Dyson 8mo Schools Exclusive Children’s commissioner orders compulsory survey of schools Dame Rachel de Souza uses statutory powers to ask schools about their provision and barriers to supporting pupils Freddie Whittaker 8mo Freddie Whittaker 8mo Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted: The schools already drawing up their own report cards Several schools are ahead of Ofsted and drawing up their own report cards. Schools Week investigates Lucas Cumiskey 8mo Lucas Cumiskey 8mo Politics Gamekeeper turns poacher as Hayes takes committee chair Former shadow children’s minister talks Ofsted, recruitment and retention, funding and holding her former colleagues to account Freddie Whittaker 8mo Freddie Whittaker 8mo Newer 1 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 970 Older