Cyber-attacks, exam fees and digital vision…meet the new head of Cambridge OCR Myles McGinley talks to Schools Week about his hopes for the future of curriculum and assessment
Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define what leadership really means
Schools white paper will ‘focus on setting expectations on behaviour’ Education secretary is concerned about children vulnerable to ‘darker forces’ online when they disengage from school
Ministers plan academy support staff pensions reform The plans would simplify the process to transfer staff to the same fund, rather than having them spread out across different councils based on their school location
Outdated Ofsted rule ‘inadequate’ for looked-after children ‘Crucial’ government guidance still refers to headline grades, despite them being scrapped over a year ago
‘Deepfake’ teacher avatar plan to help pupils catch up Academy trust staff to use AI generator to create videos that look and sound just like them to introduce resources for pupils returning to school
Conservatives propose exclusion ‘presumption’ for violent pupils Shadow education secretary also says her party would make alternative provision ‘independent’ of councils and stop unregistered settings
‘No real subject inspection left’: Spielman slams Ofsted reforms Report cards will ‘take out everything that amounts to a serious review of what’s taught and how it’s taught’, says ex-Ofsted boss
Pupils’ horizons ‘broadened’ after primary careers training pilot CPD rolled out to all primaries as teachers report children were less likely to feel held back by gender stereotypes after government-backed trial