News Areas with greatest SEND support demand will ‘lose out’ on high needs cash injection Areas with large proportions of SEND pupils will lose out on extra high needs funding announced by the government… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Top trusts ‘resist’ standardising curriculum, and 6 more MAT research findings High-performing multi-academy trusts and federations of schools are resisting rolling out prescriptive practices for curriculum and pedagogy, a study… John Dickens 7y John Dickens 7y News Barring pupils with fewer than three Ds ‘access to student loans’ is ‘retrograde step’ Leaked proposals that would deny student loans to pupils who achieve fewer than three Ds in their A-levels have… John Dickens 7y John Dickens 7y News School leaders join forces to launch staff absence insurance A group of school leaders has joined forces to offer an alternative staff absence insurance, with talks ongoing to… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Policy Exchange: Deny top Ofsted grades to schools that fail to demand good behaviour Schools should only be rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ if they demand “higher standards of behaviour” from their pupils, the… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News Exclusive Salford Academy Trust minutes reveal boardroom rift Board minutes from a doomed academy trust reveal a boardroom rift between trustees who accused one of their sponsors… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y News Schools to get £350m extra SEND funding, but heads warn it’s ‘not enough’ The government will hand councils an extra £350 million in funding to support pupils with special educational needs and… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News School data security incidents rise in wake of GDPR The number of data security incidents reported by the education sector rocketed by more than 43 per cent after… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Fact check: How many free schools have actually closed? Neither ministers nor the opposition are giving the full picture when it comes to free school closures, analysis by… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Cuckoo Hall Academy threatened with funding termination An academy criticised by Ofsted for its “stage, not age” curriculum model has been warned it could face being… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y News Check ‘consistency’ when considering reviews of coursework marking, schools told Schools that receive requests to review coursework marks will have to judge whether their teachers are marking all pupils’s… Jess Staufenberg 7y Jess Staufenberg 7y News ‘Focus on sharing resources’, academy trusts told Multi-academy trusts should be entrepreneurial and willing to take calculated risks to remain sustainable “in an age of austerity”,… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y Newer 1 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 1,005 Older
