Exams Progress 8 pause: Heads call for wider review But some heads have warned the sector could creep back to GCSE pass grades being the accountability ‘king’ Samantha Booth 6h Samantha Booth 6h Exams No school progress measure for next two years The Department for Education had explored alternative options, but concluded there is ‘no replacement’ for progress 8 measure Samantha Booth 18h Samantha Booth 18h Climate change Calls for review of ‘undervalued’ climate education A third of secondary teachers did not believe they spent enough time teaching about climate change Samantha Booth 1d Samantha Booth 1d SEND NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role SEND leaders are playing a ‘crucial role’ in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find Samantha Booth 1d Samantha Booth 1d Ofsted Ofsted criticises ‘limited and poor quality’ RE lessons 5 key findings from Ofsted’s religious education subject report Lucas Cumiskey 2d Lucas Cumiskey 2d Funding CST outlines 4 reforms for ‘fairer’ school funding Academy body calls for SEND cash through the national funding formula, a policy premium and new private finance building… Jack Dyson 2d Jack Dyson 2d SATs Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded Samantha Booth 2d Samantha Booth 2d High Court Michaela school wins High Court battle over prayer ban Policy did not ‘interfere’ with a Muslim pupil’s religious freedoms because she had ‘chosen the school knowing its strict… Lucas Cumiskey 3d Lucas Cumiskey 3d Academies Big MATs have highest teacher turnover, EPI finds Large trusts have highest levels of teacher turnover and are better-off, report reveals Jack Dyson 3d Jack Dyson 3d Governance Sir Paul Marshall steps down from Ark Schools board Media mogul was accused of liking and sharing far-right extremist posts and conspiracy theories on social media Freddie Whittaker 3d Freddie Whittaker 3d Teacher training Exclusive DfE ends funding for teaching school hubs sector body Officials praise Teaching Schools Hub Council for ‘careful stewardship’ of hubs network as cash pulled Samantha Booth 4d Samantha Booth and Lucas Cumiskey 4d News Schools face £1bn funding hit over falling rolls, report suggests Think tank warns of ‘imminent challenges to financial health of schools’ amid falling rolls crisis Jack Dyson 1w Jack Dyson 1w 1 2 3 4 5 6 891 Older