News Times-tables tests for 8 and 9-year-olds to start at 290 primary schools next month Trials of a new times-tables test for year 4 pupils will begin at around 290 primary schools from next… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News ESFA ‘to blame’ for rescinded school application The government’s education funding arm “significantly contributed to the failure” of a new secondary school that had its planning… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News SENCO Forum finally fixed three months after DfE error The National SENCO Forum is finally up and running again, in full almost three months after it was accidentally… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Exclusive QTS rule change means 9,000 prospective teachers can retake skills test At least 9,000 prospective teachers barred from training after failing a skills test three times will be able to… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News QTS skills test: Lock-out period and retake charges scrapped The government is to scrap the controversial lock-out period that currently prevents would-be teachers from retaking the QTS skills… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Teachers need proper sex education training, warn experts External speakers should not be used as substitutes for trained teachers under plans to make sex and relationships education… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Teacher workload crisis threatens examiner recruitment Teacher workload and reforms to GCSEs and A-levels are affecting examiner recruitment. Union officials, school leaders and examiners have… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News REVEALED: The local authorities with the biggest staffing cuts Secondary schools have lost more than 15,000 members of staff over the last three years, but teacher-to-pupil ratios have… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Ofsted allows newly-trained staff to lead short inspections Ofsted will allow 25 junior inspectors who signed up to a fast-track training programme with a cash incentive to… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Slight fall in school absence fines in wake of Platt court case Parents fined for their children’s unauthorised absence fell a little last year, but the figures did not change as… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Exclusive United Learning and Ark in north-London turf war Two of the country’s leading academy trusts have clashed over plans for an “unneeded” free school in north London…. Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Floreat Brentford Primary free school to close The sponsor of Floreat Brentford Primary School, a free school in west London, has announced plans to close the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y Newer 1 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 1,012 Older
