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It’s been a busy week in education. Catch up on all your must-read������Vlog��content from the past seven days right here:

• School leaders call for Ofsted pause after death of Ruth Perry��
  At the start of the week, Ofsted was urged to pause its inspections by teachers’ and heads’ unions because of the strength of feeling after the death of headteacher Ruth Perry.
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• Ofsted inspections: the legal rights of schools��
  Amid talk of some schools boycotting Ofsted, one legal expert explained the potential consequences for schools that refuse an inspection.
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• Spielman: Inspection pause not ‘in children’s best interests’
  On Friday Ofsted chief��Amanda Spielman said��that stopping school inspections was not the right course of action, adding that the watchdog knows that inspections “can be challenging” and always aims to “carry them out with sensitivity”.
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• GCSEs 2023: Invigilator shortage fears as student anxiety spikes
  Fears are growing over a shortage of invigilator staff to oversee students sitting GCSE and A-level exams this summer as leaders warn of the “most anxious cohort they’ve ever had”.
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• Teacher pay: Union calls for long-term deal��
  The Association of School and College Leaders has called for a “long-term commitment to funding over a number of years” to reverse the “significant real-terms decline” in teacher pay rates,��in its submission to��the School Teachers’ Review Body.
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• ‘Rumbling crisis’ in behaviour management, says DfE tsar��
  Schools have a “rumbling crisis” in behaviour management, the Department for Education’s behaviour adviser has said, citing the “shocking” number of teachers reporting poor behaviour.
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• Revealed: Teacher vacancy regional hotspots��
  Secondary school teacher vacancies have soared by up to 36 per cent above pre-pandemic levels in some regions, a������Vlog��analysis of the latest data reveals.
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• Recruitment crisis: DfE set to miss 2023-24 targets��
  The government is set to fall short of its teacher trainee recruitment targets for the second year in a row, despite increasing bursaries, according to an expert forecast.
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• Why we need a long-term strategy to tackle this recruitment crisis
  We must have a long-term plan to make teaching more attractive to graduates -��and that means better pay and compensation for the flexible working that they can enjoy in other professions, writes��Jack Worth, of the National Foundation for Educational Research.
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• MPs launch inquiry into teacher shortages��
  The recruitment and retention difficulties that schools are facing are to be investigated in a new inquiry by the Commons Education Select Committee, with one former minister warning that the government must “urgently identify solutions”.
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• DfE reviews ECF amid workload fears
  The Department for Education has launched a consultation on the Early Career Framework and initial teacher training curriculums, saying that it could “inform amendments to the frameworks”.
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• MAT school improvement probe launched��
  A major new inquiry to uncover the best approaches that multi-academy trusts are using to improve schools has been opened by the Confederation of School Trusts.
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• Keegan promises draft transgender guidance this spring��
  The government is aiming to publish draft transgender guidance for schools “later in the spring” for consultation,��education secretary��Gillian Keegan��has said.