News

Schools urged to publish salary gap to wipe out gender bias

Schools are being urged to pledge to eradicate gender bias and support more women into headship – including by...

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John Dickens
News

Academy trust with principal paid £1,000 per-pupil handed financial notice to improve

An academy trust with a UTC whose former principal earnt £1,000-per pupil has been handed a financial notice to...

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John Dickens
News

ASCL kicks off conference season with survey revealing ‘damaging’ funding cuts

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has launched its annual conference today with a survey revealing “the...

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John Dickens
News

Sir Michael Wilshaw: Teachers leaving for classrooms abroad is “brain drain” on talent

Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has called for urgent action to plug the flood of teachers leaving the...

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John Dickens
News

CfBT Schools Trust to pull sponsorship from three failing schools so local trusts can take over

An academy chain will pull out of three schools after failing to drive “rapid enough” improvement – allowing trusts...

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John Dickens
News

Stoke council to pay trainee maths teacher student loans

Headteachers in a city criticised by Ofsted for failing pupils have secured £1 million of funding to help attract...

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John Dickens
Opinion

Key Stage 1 changes take writing back to the 19th Century

I attended a briefing by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) on February 5 for local authority leaders of...

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John Dickens
News

Anger over exclamation changes to primary writing assessments

Teachers and moderators are up in arms over changes to primary writing assessments that have been labelled as “going...

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John Dickens
News

NAO Teacher Recruitment Report: The 15 key points

The Department for Education estimates £700 million is spent on training new teachers each year – but for the...

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John Dickens