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Schools Week editorials
Edition eight editorial New DfE building to include gym and art collection When Nicky Morgan said spare money should be spent in...
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A-level decoupling: who’s going to benefit?
A-level reform will leave sixth-form students facing increasingly difficult curriculum decisions and decreased attainment. Change is an inevitability that all teachers...
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How can schools strengthen mental health for all pupils?
The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) code of practice will give schools the impetus to review their approaches to supporting...
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School Funding Changes: Made Simple
The way in which the Dedicated Schools Grant, one of the main components of school funding, is calculated is changing. The...
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Creating a toolkit to help raise teaching standards
UK heads joined school leaders from around the world in Washington to explore ways of developing professional learning and providing effective...
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Schools Week editorials
Edition seven editorial Free school sixth-form offer £500 recruitment ‘incentive’ to pupils A proposed sixth-form free school advertising £500 incentives to new...
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The 13 most critical points in the NAO’s Academies and Schools Oversight report
Today the National Audit Office (NAO) released a document scrutinising the way schools are overseen and intervened on if under-performing. Reading...
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University-led teacher training should be valued, not derided
The transfer of initial teacher training numbers to the School Direct programme has all the makings of a crisis in future...
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Let’s give young carers the pupil premium
The UK’s 160,000 young carers do not do as well as their peers at school. Giving them the pupil premium is...
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Is a new model of school collaboration emerging?
Collaboration is a new buzzword in education, but there are many ways it can happen. Expert Alison Talbot describes how one...
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Schools Week editorials
Edition six editorial Ofsted ditches inspector who copied reports After presenting Ofsted with irrefutable evidence of recycled reports from inspections less than six...
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