The MIS Contract Conundrum Schools that refuse ‘legacy lock-in’ and opt for Bromcom’s cloud-MIS reap financial benefits
Rise in parents complaining to Ofsted about schools post-Covid But watchdog wants to ‘reassure’ sector that few led to snap inspections
Government still lags well behind NPQ take-up target Just 63,484 NPQ courses have been started in two years, against a DfE target of 150,000 across three, new data shows
9 key findings from the 2022 school workforce census Record number of teachers quit, vacancies rocket and sickness soars – everything you need to know about the state of the school workforce
Record rate of teacher departures as 40,000 quit sector last year New workforce data for 2022 shows 7,800 more teachers quit the profession for reasons other than retirement
The key trends in 2023 GCSE and A-level entries Boost in popularity for maths, computing and classical subjects, but language and creative subjects in trouble
Illness drives stubbornly high persistent absence Around a quarter of pupils have missed 10 per cent or more sessions since September
Link family income data to pupil attainment, says EPI Think tank warns changing profile of group eligible for free school meals mean it’s not a simple metric for disadvantage
School suspensions up 13%, but exclusions continue to fall Government data shows breach of pandemic measures was cited in nearly 13,000 suspensions