Curriculum

Revealed: 12-member panel to lead Labour curriculum review

Academy trust leaders, a SEND consultant and exams expert among those appointed to work with Professor Becky Francis

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Freddie Whittaker
News

GCSE results 2024: Ofqual’s Ian Bauckham answers our questions

Ofqual chief speaks about rising top grades, changes to French and German grading and the regulator's wider work

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Freddie Whittaker
News

Bauckham: Assessment review should ‘look at’ GCSE re-sits policy

Ofqual chief says policy requiring pupils without a grade 4 to re-take English and maths should form part of...

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Freddie Whittaker
GCSE results 2024

GCSEs 2024: Top grades up 1% as results ‘settle back’ post-Covid

But education secretary warns of 'unacceptable, entrenched regional disparities'

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Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment and retention

Teacher appraisal guidance: What you need to know

The process should be supportive, reduce workload and discuss working hours

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Freddie Whittaker
SEND

SEND system ‘very likely’ to become unsustainable, warns DfE

Risk that councils' financial challenges will impede essential support services now 'critical'

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Samantha Booth and Jack Dyson
Teacher pay

Teacher pay 2024: Everything you need to know

Is it really ‘fully funded’? Can schools afford it? And what else has been announced?

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Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

Reeves accepts 5.5% teacher pay recommendation

DfE confirms it will hand schools £1.2bn to help pay for staff rises, but they'll have to contribute £600m...

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Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Starmer adviser Peter Hyman won’t join Downing Street team

School founder and former Blair speechwriter had played key role in drawing up PM's core 'missions'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker