In Short, News Breaking: Firm chosen for new national reference tests with first exams set for March 2017 A firm has been selected to develop and introduce the new national reference tests – with the first pupils set to… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Hunt pledges ‘far-reaching’ reform of Ofsted and peer review system by 2020 Labour will complete “far-reaching reform” of Ofsted and introduce a peer review improvement system by 2020 if the party… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Teachers need more support to stop their careers being ruined by false allegations from pupils, union warns More than a third of school staff claim they or a colleague have faced false allegations from pupils –… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News Plans for differently weighting the maths content of new science GCSEs have “little justification” Ofqual’s proposals for differently weighting maths content in the new science GCSE exams have “little justification”, says a science subject… Sophie Scott 11y Sophie Scott 11y News STEM-specialist free school branded ‘inadequate’ A North London 16 to 19 free school which specialises in science, maths, engineering and technology has been branded… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News ASCL: leave us to get on with it, whitehall The curriculum is the business of politicians, not teachers, said Nicky Morgan, while Labour’s Tristram Hunt plumped for help… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Reception assessments ‘harmful’, say unions and academics An open letter expressing deep concern about the intended introduction of reception baseline assessments from September has been signed… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Special needs reforms: laudable or laughable? Parents of children with special needs last year told a website survey that they were unhappy with September’s changes… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Inspiration Trust denies ‘baseless allegations’ it will sell failing Norwich schools’ land Education secretary Nicky Morgan has taken the controversial decision to sign an academy order for the Hewett school in… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News £1.8m to ‘eradicate’ homophobic bullying The government has released £1.8 million to train teachers to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying. Eight groups,… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News DfE scores academy chains and local authorities on same measures for first time The Department for Education has proposed measures for rating the performance of academy chains and local authorities, which would… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Teachers have too much control, RSC warns school A regional schools commissioner (RSC) has warned a struggling school for allowing its teachers to have too much control… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y Newer 1 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 1,001 Older
