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Schools in poorest areas have up to 100 extra sick days, plus 3 more EPI teacher shortage findings

The Education Policy Institute today has released a report probing the teacher shortages and pay in England. Report author Luke Sibieta raised concerns the government’s big pledge to boost teacher starting salaries up to £30,000 will solve the challenges faced by disadvantaged schools in retaining and recruiting high-quality teachers. Here’s four key findings: 1. […]

EPI: Schools in poorest areas face more cuts to pay for £30k starting salaries

Schools in the most disadvantaged areas face having to make further cuts to meet the sharp rise in salaries for new teachers, a report has warned. The Department for Education has pledged starting teacher salaries will increase to £30,000 by 2022. This is a 23 percent increase, or nearly £6,000 a year, outside of London […]

Schools invited to comment on major review of university admissions

Schools are invited to have their say on how the future of university admissions should look, as the independent regulator for higher education in England launches a major review. The Office for Students has put forward three future options for reform of the system, which includes keeping it the same but with reforms such as […]

Four in 10 LGBT+ teachers experience homophobia, biphobia or transphobia, warns NASUWT

More than four in ten teachers who identify as LGBT+ have personally experienced homophobia, biphobia or transphobia at work in the past year, the NASUWT teaching union has warned. And 40 per cent of LGBT+ teachers have also witnessed homophobic, biphobic or transphobic incidents involving their colleagues, with 17 per cent saying they had witnessed […]

Spielman’s school funding blog post: The full text

Ofsted’s chief inspector Amanda Spielman sparked controversy yesterday over several claims in a blog post outlining the impact of school funding pressures. The post was hastily removed by the watchdog, which said it was published “erroneously”. It will be released in the coming weeks to coincide with the publication of a more detailed study on […]

Who were the winners of The Careers & Enterprise Company Annual Awards 2019?

This week the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) celebrated the work of schools, colleges, businesses, and careers professionals with its annual awards ceremony for 2019. Over 200 nominations were accepted for the 12 categories and the winners were chosen by panel of independent expert judges. Claudia Harris, chief executive of the Careers and Enterprise Company, […]

Grammar school scraps controversial ‘exclusion clause’ from registration form

A grammar school has deleted a controversial clause in its registration form that made parents agree their child could be kicked out if the headteacher thinks it “desirable”. The Skinners’ School in Kent required the parents of prospective pupils to sign a registration form allowing governors to withdraw their child if they decided via “a […]

Luke Sibieta, director, Sibieta Economics of Education

One figure has been bandied about more than most in the school funding debate of the past couple of years and that’s the 8 per cent drop in real-terms per-pupil funding since 2010. I’ve come to meet the man who calculated it. Luke Sibieta’s 2017 education funding report for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) […]

Interview: Robert Halfon, chair of the education select committee

When I ask Robert Halfon, the chair of the education committee, to name the witness that has affected him most, I’m expecting a big-hitter. Andreas Schleicher, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s education director, perhaps, or Chen Liang-gee, the Taiwanese science and technology minister? But instead he talks about Carlie Thomas, a senior caseworker […]