News Small ‘good’ schools may get exemption from longer inspections The country’s smallest ‘good’-rated primary schools may avoid having new two-day inspections under Ofsted’s proposed inspection framework, one of… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Ofsted director brands legal challenges ‘colossal waste of money’, tells schools to ‘bring it on’ Legal challenges by schools over Ofsted judgments are often a “colossal waste of taxpayers’ money”, a senior inspector has… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for BTECs The government is considering withdrawing funding for BTECs and other qualifications that “overlap” with A-levels, Damian Hinds has announced…. Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive Two-fifths of schools have buckets catching drips from leaky roofs Two in five teachers work in schools that have buckets set up to catch drips when it rains, it… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Microsoft researcher to head up new National Centre for Computing Education A Microsoft researcher who also chairs the group behind the controversial master computing teachers programme has been put in… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Inspectors must declare all consultancy work after rule change Ofsted has tightened its conflicts of interest rules, with inspectors now forced to declare all of their previous and… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Exclusive Rejected special school bids in areas facing biggest shortfalls The majority of local authorities that have been refused new specialist schools will run out of places three years… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Exclusive Let grammars use expansion cash to help secondary moderns, says leading head A leading grammar head wants expansion cash redirected to encourage selective schools to give support to secondary moderns. This… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Improving schools won’t suffer under new inspection framework – Spielman The chief inspector of schools has sought to reassure headteachers that improving schools will not be penalised under Ofsted’s… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Ofsted plans to entice middle leaders for inspection secondments Ofsted is to launch a secondment programme for middle leaders who want to spend a year working as full-time… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Performance tables penalise schools with most vulnerable pupils, warns union boss The current system of school league tables stigmatises schools and penalises those with the most vulnerable pupils, union leader… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Exclusive Ofsted’s off-rolling focus may drive exclusions, leading heads warn Confusion over Ofsted’s off-rolling focus may push more schools to permanently exclude pupils, a leading group of headteachers has… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Newer 1 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 1,005 Older
