News

DfE calls for evidence to aid NPQ review

The DfE is asking for 'recent, relevant and high-quality research' as it reviews its suite of NPQs - beginning...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Attendance

NFER’s 5 ways to cut school absence

'Schools should consider prioritising encouraging and individualised approaches in addition to punitive sanction'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

‘Join the PTA not the pile-on’, Oliver tells complaining parents

Parents should engage with schools 'in the right way', says Ofsted chief amid rising abuse of teachers and leaders

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

Lost learning solutions: meet the inclusion trailblazers

As a landmark report into 'lost learning' shared how schools must boost inclusion, we spoke to some of the...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Pay and conditions

One in six teachers would take 20% less pension for a 10% pay rise

EPI urges government to investigate the possibility of flexibility in the teachers' pension scheme

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

More schools get positive Ofsted scores after headline grades ditched

First data on inspections without overall judgments shows rises across behaviour, personal development and leadership categories

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Lost learning crisis: 10 solutions to keep kids in class

Schools with 'least representative' cohorts should be banned from growing and more transparency over pupil moves are called for

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

‘I’d like to see SEND label retired’, says inclusion tsar Tom Rees

DfE inclusion adviser also spoke of problems with the current 'medicalised model' of special educational needs support

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Ofsted

Ofsted reform critics want ‘low-accountability system’, claims chief inspector

Sir Martyn Oliver says new report cards 'are not and never were going to bring about the end of...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks