Author: Jess Staufenberg

Long hours and lots of marking are not the factors that make teachers want to leave their jobs, according to new analysis of data from a survey. Instead, it’s the feeling that their workload is “unmanageable” that has an effect on decisions to quit. This “surprising” finding has been drawn from a 2013 survey about […]

A lower proportion of key stage 2 tests were put forward for re-marks this year compared to last year, but a smaller proportion of appeals were successful, data released this morning shows. Applications for re-marks for English reading, mathematics, spelling, punctuation and spelling dropped from 1.9 per cent last year to 1.4 per cent this year […]

Black and Asian parents apply for more school places and are more likely to pick good schools further from home than their white counterparts, according to new analysis. However, these parents are substantially less likely to secure their first choice of school, according to research by the University of Bristol, which investigated new data on […]

A beleagured academy which teaches pupils by “stage, not age” has been put into special measures by Ofsted, after inspectors were left unimpressed by the model. The report, which is particularly critical of the school’s curriculum model, will be a fresh blow to the trust on the back of a string of difficulties. Two years […]

More trainee teachers will be needed for non-EBacc subjects than expected next year, a government report has admitted – following a drop in take-up of EBacc subjects among pupils. When GCSE data came out two weeks ago, figures revealed an unexpected drop of 1.5 percentage points in pupils taking up EBacc subjects for the first […]

The government has announced the 25 areas in which a pilot for teacher student loan forgiveness will be rolled out. At the start of the month, education secretary Justine Greening announced a scheme of student loan forgiveness for teachers in shortage subjects working in areas of the country struggling with recruitment. She said the policy would […]

Justine Greening has indicated that more opportunity areas will be added to the 12 already on the list “over time”, in particular agreeing with criticism that none are present in the north-east. In an interview before an audience at a Teach First conference today, Greening said that she “hoped” more areas would be given funding […]

The teacher apprenticeship will “not be a priority” under a Labour government because the route will do nothing to stem the tide of teachers leaving the profession, the shadow education secretary has said. Angela Rayner, speaking to Schools Week after a speech at a Teach First conference today, said she was a strong supporter of […]