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Curriculum review should ‘incentivise’ schools to teach ’employment skills’

Schools need support to promote the development of skills such as communication, organisation and problem-solving, says NFER study

£2m for ‘writing framework’, CPD and resources fund

DfE says new guidance will ‘articulate a common approach to teaching writing rooted in evidence and good practice’

Matt Hood to leave Oak national academy

It comes less than a year after he bagged the permanent role

‘Poorest pupils will be hit hardest’: Heads lament Latin scheme axe

‘State school pupils will lose that richness of education that someone in a private school down the road has’

Schools face ‘significant disruption’ as government culls Latin scheme

State school pupils due to take Latin at GCSE see funding for teachers and trips pulled mid-year as DfE wields axe

Becky Francis reveals ‘emerging themes’ from curriculum review

Francis says ‘frequent complaints’ include that assessment and exams ‘dictate curriculum’, which is also ‘overprescribed and overstuffed’

Curriculum review call for evidence: what schools need to know

The government has this morning published its call for evidence for its wide-ranging review of the curriculum. We already have an explainer of how the review will work (you can read that here), so the below is more specific to the call for evidence. 1. It’s an 8-week consultation The call for evidence opens today […]

‘If we put things in we have to take things out’, says curriculum review chair

Professor Becky Francis acknowledges complaints of a ‘very overstuffed curriculum’

Celebrating a career spent championing ethical leadership

As Carolyn Roberts retires, ending a 23-year headship career in which she has both championed and embodied ethical leadership, her parting question to the sector is one that she believes school leaders have been “reluctant” to answer. “What are schools actually for?” At a time when pupil absenteeism remains stubbornly high, Roberts worries that many […]