Friday
What freedoms will academies lose under the new schools bill?
The planned legislation is set to result in significant changes to academy powers. Jasmine Norden and Ellen Peirson-Hagger outline which freedoms academies will lose and retain
Teachers and students sought to shape Scotland’s new qualifications body
With Qualifications Scotland due to replace the SQA in late 2025, ‘partnership panels’ aim to give teachers and students a bigger say over the new body’s priorities
Starmer: SEND reform will be done ‘as urgently as possible’
Prime minister is warned that councils’ SEND spending deficits could result in ‘an avalanche’ of local authorities declaring effective bankruptcy
School’s legal challenge against double RI academy order
Primary school is taking legal advice in an attempt to stop the DfE pushing ahead with its forced academisation under a policy that the government is dropping in the new year
2024 saw ‘big steps forward’, but SEND system must be fixed in 2025
ASCL chief Pepe Di’lasio reflects on 12 months in education that have brought some seismic changes in the system but can only be viewed as the start of a long journey
New inquiry will seek solutions to SEND crisis
MPs will look at inclusion in mainstream schools, funding and alternatives to the EHCP system ‘without reducing support’
Force parents to engage on behaviour, says report
Teachers are ‘powerless’ to tackle the rise in disruptive behaviour in schools – they need to be given greater authority, says Tony Blair’s think tank
Thursday
CfE: Education Scotland proposes alternative to ‘experiences and outcomes’
The so-called ‘Es and Os’ used by teachers in Scotland to plan lessons are on their way out amid fears they have contributed to the ‘downgrading of knowledge’. So what will replace them?
Only 6 in 10 schools used NTP in final year after funding cut
Reduction of government subsidy for the National Tutoring Programme caused a big drop-off in school participation in 2023-24
Children’s Wellbeing Bill could be ‘transformative’ for disadvantaged pupils
Giving more power to local authorities on admissions could be the best chance we have of closing attainment gaps, says Sutton Trust CEO Nick Harrison
Wednesday
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: All you need to know
ÌÇÐÄVlog outlines the key details of planned legislation that could result in significant changes to academy powers, pupil safeguarding and requirements on schools
‘The status quo is not working,’ says Gilruth as reforms reach milestone
If Scotland’s national bodies are weak then education is weak, ministers told in education bill debate, which was preceded by announcement of Centre of Teaching Excellence’s location
