Billy Camden | Schools Week

Rajbir Hazelwood, programme officer, the Brilliant Club

Rajbir Hazelwood is like a ray of sunshine on a gloomy day, guaranteed to perk you up. On the day we meet, the 31-year-old is starting her fourth month with The Brilliant Club, a social enterprise that aims to widen university access for high-achieving state school pupils. Her appointment follows six years of studying and […]

Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2015

Nicky Morgan has written to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) confirming her acceptance of the recommended pay terms for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2015. Below are the new pay boundaries set out in the STRB 25th report. Class teacher England & Wales excluding London Unqualified teacher pay […]

We still haven’t got the right training model

Freeing up the teacher training market has some advantages. But if recruitment targets are to be met, the artificial distinction between school-led and university training should be removed The National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) last week announced a new way of managing trainee teacher recruitment for 2016/17. Instead of allocating places direct to […]

Finding the right woman for the job

Figures suggest governors have a gender bias when they appoint headteachers. So what happens when they don’t have a say? I have written before about the apparent gender bias among some governing bodies that contributes to women being significantly under-represented in headship. So I was interested to see what would happen when we took governors […]

Early Excellence, CEM and NFER selected as baseline assessment providers

The Standards and Testing Agency has announced three approved providers for the reception baseline assessments. The chosen providers are Early Excellence, Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring, Durham University (CEM) and National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). They will roll out their assessment models from September. From September 2016 primary schools will need to use the […]

Joe Saxton, Richard Greenhalgh and Aisling McKeever

Joe Saxton, the new chair of board of trustees at PTA UK, the charity for parent teacher associations, is quite clear why he has taken on the role. “We hear from teachers on their challenges, we hear from the government about education policy — but where is the parents’ voice? It is unacceptable that the […]

Free fundraising resources

Free teaching resources to rally pupils to become part of a fundraising movement involving Children in Need are being offered to schools. Champions of Change aims to inspire children to take charge of their own fundraising while developing life skills. To help encourage students to take part, teachers can now sign up to receive one […]

£10,000 boost for homophobic bullying project

A project that aims to stop homophobic bullying taking root in primary school children has received a £10,000 boost. Former primary school assistant headteacher and current course leader in primary education at the University of Huddersfield, Jonathan Glazzard (pictured), has been given the money as part of a National Teaching Fellowship project. Describing the scheme […]

Be brave, exhorts headteacher

Bravery in teaching was at the heart of the South West Academic Trust (SWAT) teaching and learning conference at the University of Exeter earlier this month. While he may not have reached the rallying cry of Scottish independence leader William Wallace, the headteacher of Devonport High School for Boys (DHSB) in Plymouth, Dan Roberts, encouraged the 200 […]