SEND DfE officials grilled on SEND: 7 key findings Senior civil servants were quizzed on the crisis hit SEND system, after a damning report by the National Audit… Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Movers and Shakers OCR boss Jill Duffy to step down after seven years at the helm Duffy will take on ‘new non-executive positions’ as she ‘steps back from full-time executive leadership’ Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y News Movers and shakers: Primary First, Sutton Trust, Bromcom, Anthem This week’s movers and shakers include a make-up artist to a Spice Girl and a former student activist Schools Week Reporter 1y Schools Week Reporter 1y News Minister wants more details on home-to-school travel Catherine McKinnell says ‘even fundamental information’ such as the number of pupils who receive free transport is not collected Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y Home education Parents will need council permission to home educate children with protection enquiries or plans Councils will also have to include schools in ‘multi-agency safeguarding teams’ Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Cyber security Exclusive Trust loses almost £400,000 in cyber scam Police launched an investigation after Wembley Multi-Academy Trust made four payments to fraudsters Jack Dyson 1y Jack Dyson 1y Ofsted, Teacher training Exclusive Ofsted in talks with DfE about delaying ITT inspections Providers due to be inspected from January are still waiting for guidance over how new reforms will be judged Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y News DfE trials ‘dating agency’ to help trainees find school placement ‘Manage school placements’ service, piloted in Leeds, allows schools to publish opportunities for placing students on teacher training courses Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y News Scheme will help schools recover energy over-payments Company will carry out audits to look for ‘anomalies and billing errors’, then recover funds Samantha Booth 1y Samantha Booth 1y News Ofqual investigates extra exam time at private schools Forty-two per cent of private school pupils get extra time, compared to 26.5 per cent of state pupils Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y News Are school teachers really ‘enslaved’? Here’s what the data says Labour’s school tsar has warned of a ‘shadow compliance culture’. But what do things look like on the ground? Lucas Cumiskey 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Ofsted Ofsted proposes giving schools one of five ratings across 10 areas Plans for report cards shared with leaders show schools graded from ‘exemplary’ to ‘causing concern’ against areas including… Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Newer 1 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 1,012 Older
