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Zahawi unveils new 17-member ‘attendance alliance’

Academy trust leaders will also form a sub-alliance to identify best practice

DfE reveals its targets for £377m NPQ and ECF reforms

Documents show how the DfE will mark its own homework on flagship teacher training reforms

SEND review has ‘taken too long’, and comms ‘regrettable’ – minister

Will Quince tells MPs DfE ‘could have done better’ in its engagement with stakeholders

ITT market review: what you need to know about new reforms

The Department for Education has published its response to the ITT market review today – setting out finalised reforms for the sector. There are some concessions to the initial proposals in the review (as covered in our news story here). Here’s Schools Week’s trusty guide to what you need to know… 1. Extra year before […]

DfE delays ITT market review reforms for a year

Providers will now have to comply with new requirements from 2024-25

Staff have to ‘drop something’ to fit in ECF, provider admits

Here’s what we learned from the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers annual conference this week

ITT providers ‘alarmingly selling specific pedagogies’ as ‘be all and end all’, Ofsted says

Some initial teacher training providers inspected under the new Ofsted framework were “misinforming trainees” by teaching them only specific pedagogies, a senior inspector has said. Out of 26 ITT inspections since May, more than half have been rated as less than ‘good’. Previously, all ITT providers were all ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Helen Matthews, a senior […]

Final ITT review ‘more implementable’, says DfE adviser

Professor Sam Twiselton, who criticised review, says final proposals are ‘more flexible, more doable’, and hints at implementation delay

Six more ITT providers downgraded under new Ofsted framework

10 out of 22 inspected providers are now below ‘good’