News FEATURED: the new regional schools commissioners Would-be whistleblowers need to know that all avenues to tell their stories are “quite open”, says Pank Patel, the… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Ofsted drops local authority ‘effective’ and ‘ineffective’ judgements Local authorities will no longer be given an overall judgement of their school improvement functions, Ofsted has said in a… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News School-based teacher training of more benefit than university route find researchers Schools think they benefit more overall from school-based teacher training than university-based routes, a new survey by the Institute… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Proposed GCSE RE criteria requires students to study two religions but not worldviews Pupils will need to study two religions under new criteria for GCSE religious studies, but non-religious worldviews will not… Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News Free school sixth-form offer £500 recruitment ‘incentive’ to pupils High-achieving students in Doncaster are being offered £500 in a bid to lure them to a new free school… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y News Government launch ‘mortgage’ offer for academies Academies will for the first time be able to borrow government cash, “like a mortgage”, in a bid to… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y News Regional school commissioners begin to flex their muscles A local authority’s choice of school sponsor has been vetoed, in a first sign of the government’s new regional… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y News College of Teaching to have three year ‘incubation’ It will take three years for a proposed College of Teaching to get up to full capacity after its… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y News GCSE secrets of top six local authorities Schools in six local authorities have bucked the downward trend of this year’s GCSE results and boosted their results…. Nicky Phillips 11y Nicky Phillips 11y News No link left behind for edu watchdogs’ website move Exam regulators Ofqual and school inspectors Ofsted, both independent bodies, are to move their information and services to GOV.UK,… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y News Double-funded academy say there will be ‘no difficulties’ in repaying A free school in south London that opened with 17 pupils has said it will have no problem paying… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y News Unions slam Osborne for classifying teacher pensions as ‘welfare’ spending Teacher pension costs are being classed as ‘welfare’ in tax advice statements being sent out by the government, and… Billy Camden 11y Billy Camden 11y Newer 1 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 975 Older
