Friday
DfE: All teachers will get SEND and inclusion training
DfE announces a new expectation on training teachers to support pupils with SEND, with £200m funding for new courses
Revealed: where teacher pay falls furthest short of living costs
Teachers in London get thousands in pay uplifts to compensate for historically high housing costs. But, given that staff in many other parts of the country now also face high property costs, does the pay weighting system need reform? ÌÇÐÄVlog investigates
Thursday
SEND reform: what have we learned from DfE listening exercise?
The government has finished a series of public engagement events ahead of announcing its plans for SEND. Here are the key issues to emerge
Ofsted inspects school that postponed Jewish MP visit
Labour MP Damien Egan’s planned visit at Bristol Brunel Academy had sparked plans for a demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists
Children educated at home increase by 15% in a year
One in six children educated at home required SEN support, government figures show, although change in methodology may be a factor in overall rise
Ark CEO among 5 new Ofsted board members
The appointments come after Ofsted’s chair recommended that the inspectorate’s governing board should be ‘revised’
How school leaders can tackle Scotland’s tech gender crisis
The growing gender gap in computing science is worrying not only for equality but also the economy – but there are practical, proven strategies schools leader can adopt, says Toni Scullion
Scholar could ‘cease operating’ after quarter of a century
Scottish online learning platform has seen more than a million student enrolments since 1999, but university host warns the current funding model is ‘not sustainable’
The transformative effect of reducing Reception class sizes
Shackleton Primary more than doubled the number of its children reaching a good level of development after cutting its Reception classes from 30 to 20. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears how it achieved this improvement
The ‘hero head’ myth and the power of mentoring
Mentoring for school leaders isn’t as widespread in the international sector as it could be, but it shows heads they don’t need to be the hero trying to do everything alone
‘Urgent need’ to improve RSHE, research shows
Researchers from UCL warn too many students are taught by non-specialists, and teachers need training to avoid ‘very patchy education’
