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Recruitment

Teacher quality warning over DfE recruitment boost plea

Letter seen by Schools Week shows DfE top boss asked teacher trainers to consider more offers, but providers have...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Teacher training

12 teacher training providers set for reaccreditation

Twelve institutions that lost teacher training accreditation following a bruising market review are on course to be reaccredited

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

1 in 20 pupils now have EHCP after numbers rise again

New data shows 11 per cent yearly rise in number of pupils with education, health and care plans amid...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

‘Reckless and ridiculous’: Ofsted’s report card plan delay slammed

Phillipson criticises 'disappointing' consultation response delay, while unions say report card roll-out now 'nonsensical'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Christine Gilbert appointed Ofsted chair

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says Gilbert will bring 'strong challenge' to Ofsted

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

‘Burnt out and isolated’: the staff on the SEND crisis frontline

SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding

Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m

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Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Solutions

Cinema trips and summer schools boost attendance 

We look at a school bucking the national trend of rising absences to learn how they're doing it

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Five things we learned about the teacher workforce from the STRB report

Teachers' pay has been eroded far more sharply than other professions, data shows

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks