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EBacc leads to job insecurity for creative arts teachers, report warns

Teachers of creative arts and technical subjects are increasingly suffering from job insecurity with many facing redundancy as a…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Let’s have a PGCE Plus with a SEND pathway, delegates told

A PGCE top-up training course for SEND – similar to a Pass Plus driving course, but for teaching –…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Education honours committee wants three new members

The government is on the hunt for three people to join the board of the education honours committee. Members…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted will give 5 days’ notice of SEND inspections

Schools involved in new inspections designed to uncover whether local special educational needs are being met will be given…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New Aldridge Education trust ditches struggling academy

A cash-strapped school has been ditched by the new academy trust founded by its sponsor, leaving the government to…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Independents ‘don’t want to switch’ to free schools

Independent schools do not have a “widespread appetite” for moving into the state sector to make their education more…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Stats watchdog slams DfE for grammar schools tweet

The government statistics watchdog has criticised a tweet from the Department for Education that claimed “white working class boys” performed…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Councils cut support for SEND provision – while boosting reserves

Schools are struggling to fund their pupils with special needs while some local authorities are building up reserves rather…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New group to boost status of ethnic minority teachers

A networking and events group aimed at encouraging more black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates into teaching and headship…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ministers told to ‘come clean’ over national teaching service

Ministers must “come clean” over recruitment figures for a landmark scheme to parachute elite teachers into struggling schools, say…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Non-teachers should be hired to plug school leader shortage, says report

Schools should hire business people with no classroom experience for non-teaching executive roles to plug an expected shortage of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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No-resit GCSEs prompt rise in ‘special consideration’ requests – but ill pupils lose out

The number of requests for exam scripts to receive “special consideration” in marking increased this summer, mainly thanks to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg