Author: Jess Staufenberg

The Teaching Schools Council has announced an academy trust boss as its new chair. Richard Gill, chief executive of the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership academy trust in the West Midlands, will lead the TSC, which coordinates teaching schools and their alliances. Gill, who has been chief executive of the trust’s 12 academies and one teaching […]

Spending by schools on professional development for teachers fell by £23.2 million in the space of a year, new research shows. Analysis of financial returns by education data specialists SchoolDash for the Teacher Development Trust found schools spent £235.8 million on CPD for teachers in 2016-17, down from £259 million in 2015-16, a drop of […]

The Department for Education’s TV advertising to boost teacher recruitment cost more than £4,000 for every person who registered an interest in teaching a shortage subject. The government published two reports today, by business consultancy London Economics, which analysed the impact of the Your Future/ Their Future marketing campaign over the past six years. The […]

Schools should only be rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ if they demand “higher standards of behaviour” from their pupils, the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange has said. In It just Grinds You Down, Policy Exchange head of education and culture Dr Joanna Williams warns of a “crisis in authority” in schools. She claims the idea of the […]

The government will hand councils an extra £350 million in funding to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, after ministers caved to pressure from desperate school leaders. Councils will receive an extra £125 million this year and a further £125 million in 2019-20 to top up high needs budgets for maintained schools and […]

Schools that receive requests to review coursework marks will have to judge whether their teachers are marking all pupils’s work consistently before submitting data to exam boards, under new rules proposed by Ofqual. The exams regulator is consulting on changes to the rules governing reviews of marking, which will give schools extra responsibilities when pupils request […]

The removal of national curriculum levels has left teachers struggling to understand the assessment information they get about pupils arriving from other schools, a new report has warned. Schools would welcome a “form of national standardisation for non-statutory assessment” guided by “annotated exemplars of pupils’ work” to help reduce the confusion, a report by the […]

The number of security breaches relating to GCSE and A-level exams fell by 40 per cent this year, despite a number of high-profile leaks on social media. In its 2018 summer exam series report, exams regulator Ofqual reported that there were 68 security breaches in 2018, down from 114 in 2017. Breaches can include instances where schools […]