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ChatGPT: EEF launches trial on cutting teacher workload

Secondary schools sought for pilot that will investigate if online toolkit can cut staff hours

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: Lucy Livings, Lisa Lyons, Lara Gratton, Naomi Carter, Stephen Holden

A civil servant who has worked around the world and an ex-triathlete are among those starting new jobs

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

School leaders to get Ofsted support under ‘Caversham Covenant’

Heads in Southampton will get help to deal with ‘the strains of Ofsted’ in new scheme named after Ruth...

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Schools Week Reporter
Teacher strikes

NEU to hold indicative ballot over potential strike action

Country's largest teacher union to run indicative ballot in March asking members to back strike action

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Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

New Ofsted inspection pauses: how they would work

Inspections could be paused for up to five days over leader wellbeing concerns, new policy states

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Movers and Shakers

Movers and shakers: Edition 344

Someone who once trained alongside athlete Linford Christie and a former child West End star are among those starting...

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Schools Week Reporter
Workload

Performance-related pay in schools to be scrapped from September

New list of admin tasks teachers shouldn't do will also be published, but plea for extra INSET day snubbed

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Schools Week Reporter
Recruitment and retention

New guidance to help schools tackle harassment of staff

But union said ‘we also need a clear message from government that aggression towards school staff will never be...

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Schools Week Reporter
Attendance

18 new attendance hubs to help 2,000 schools cut absence

DfE also confirms £15m rollout of attendance mentor scheme and new parent marketing campaign

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Schools Week Reporter