Home education

Safeguarding risk data missing from councils’ home education records

Dozens of LAs hold no data on at-home kids potentially at risk, suggesting councils ill-prepared for new duties

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exclusions

Suspension rates fall for first time since Covid lockdown

Exclusion rates for last Autumn also fell to pre-pandemic levels

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Leaders should feel ‘energised, not anxious’ about Ofsted changes, says Oliver

Chief inspector says he wants heads to feel 'comfortable and motivated by the changes'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

This week’s best responses from our readers

Science for all, minding the language gap, seeing ourselves and teaching fatigue

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Various
Curriculum review

Progress 8: A third of pupils’ GCSE entries don’t fit reformed measure

Changes will make 'little difference' to scores but likely to affect qualification entries, finds Datalab analysis

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Question level analysis is a waste of your time… so stop

When used correctly data can help inform important school decisions, but there is always a danger one reads too...

Freddie Whittaker
John Jerrim
Opinion

New enrichment benchmarks will be a boost, not a burden

Ask any teacher what they remember from school or college and it won’t be a test score

Freddie Whittaker
Liz Robinson and Ruth Marvel
Opinion

Beyond EBacc: How to get the next accountability shift right

As history has shown us, any new public policy performance measure leads to the system adapting its behaviour

Freddie Whittaker
Tim Oates
Opinion

As AI does our work, it may destroy the reasons we learn

Deference to machines raises questions not just about what and how we learn, but why, warns Lawrence Foley

Freddie Whittaker
Lawrence Foley