News Ofsted’s curriculum focus ‘risks being a tick-box exercise’ Ofsted’s focus on curriculum risks being a tick-box exercise that does nothing to assess whether children are actually learning,… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y News EBacc ‘not had much effect’ on MFL uptake, admits DfE official The EBacc has “not had much effect” on take-up in modern foreign languages, a senior Department for Education official… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Ofsted ‘worried’ heads are failing to delegate curriculum design to subject leads Some headteachers are doing “all the thinking” about the school’s curriculum when they should be delegating more responsibility to… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Teacher training targets missed in most EBacc subjects The government has missed its own teacher training targets in most EBacc subjects this year, new data shows. Initial… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Only schools with ‘excellent’ arts provision should be rated outstanding, says charity Ofsted should save its coveted ‘outstanding’ rating for schools which excel in creative and technical teaching in an effort to… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News One in three school pupils received an unconditional offer in 2018, says UCAS More than one in three school pupils who applied to university this year received some kind of unconditional offer… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News New policy role for former government education adviser Jonathan Simons Former government adviser and Policy Exchange head of education Jonathan Simons has joined the policy and PR consultancy Public… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News ‘Significant number’ of examiners unhappy with online standardisation Large numbers of examiners aren’t happy with the system currently used to standardise their marking, a new report from… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News ‘The whole system will implode’: Council bosses warn of SEND funding crisis The school funding system will “implode” if next year’s spending review does not address pressures in SEND funding, a… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Number of schools investigated over SATs maladministration rises to almost 600 The number of investigations into maladministration of primary school tests increased to almost 600 in 2017, new data out… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Pornography and LGBT issues missed out in sex education, poll finds More than half of older teenagers think schools should spend more time on relationships and sex education and cover… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Educating Greater Manchester school Harrop Fold placed in special measures Harrop Fold, the Salford secondary school that featured in the Channel 4 documentary Educating Greater Manchester, has been placed… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 986 Older
