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Do PiXL schools have more volatile results?

Schools Week analysed last year’s GCSE results for nearly 600 PiXL schools to try to ascertain whether their scores were more volatile than average. The Ofqual study shows that the more schools shift pupils into different qualifications, the more likely they are to have volatile results. It is well-documented that PiXL advises school members on […]

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Superheads: the true cost to schools

Superheads may lift results when they take over failing schools, but what happens when they leave? Laura McInerney reports “Superheads” recruited to quickly turn around failing schools boost results in the short term but leave schools with plummeting scores and financial black holes when they leave a few years later, a new study shows. Researchers […]

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Schools White Paper Podcast: What it means, chapter-by-chapter

Yesterday the government revealed its first major policy document on school reform for six years. Schools Week and Policy Exchange gathered a group of policy experts to read all of its 128-pages and quickly distil the key plans. Panel members were: – Becky Allen: Chief executive of Education Datalab – Sam Freedman: Exective director at Teach […]

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What Is An Academy? (And other questions about converting schools)

The government has announced it wants all schools to become academies by 2022. But what are they? Editor Laura McInerney looks at questions about the policy, and tries to answer them straightforwardly.   1.  Aren’t academies run by private companies? Is this just privatisation of schools? Not quite. We have to be careful with language […]

News, Opinion

Glenys Stacey, chief regulator, Ofqual

It is five years since Glenys Stacey, lawyer-turned-serial-regulator, took the helm as England’s first ‘chief exams regulator’ and she is about to step down. Invited for her last interview before disappearing to become Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation, editor Laura McInerney grilled her on life as a regulator. Off an anonymous roundabout in Coventry, […]

Features

Invent a Job for Teachers: How to create a job worth leaving school for

Here’s some bad news. You know that person you want to be in 2016? The one who eats healthily, has time for family, and achieves their goals? Well, you have almost zero chance of making it. Research suggests that while about half of us make resolutions at the start of a new year: fewer than […]

Reviews

Government ‘does not hold’ grammar school documents Nicky Morgan spent 11 months reviewing

The Department for Education has refused to confirm whether it holds a controversial application form presented by a Kent grammar school to open an annexe, despite mounting pressure from campaigners who say its refusal is derailing a legal challenge. Campaigners have been weighing up if they should appeal the government’s decision to allow Weald of […]

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Top 10 Most Popular Schools Week Opinion Columns in 2015

In a year when people started revolting against the opinion writer and calling for ‘safe spaces’, Schools Week continued bringing thought-provoking content – even when it caused some opposition. Here’s the 10 pieces this year which garnered the most attention.   10. If I were education secretary – Debra Kidd In our most read of the ‘If […]

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In Case You Missed It: Top 10 Most Read Schools Week Stories in 2015

Secret documents, submarines, and teachers escaping to warmer climes all graced the Schools Week cover this year. But what were the most-read stories online? In reverse order: 10. More teachers left to go abroad last year than did a university PGCE  Shocking figures revealed how last year over 18,000 extra teachers made their way to work in British […]

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