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• Exclusive: Major study will track teacher training impact on pupils��
  A five-year research project called��Teaching Improvement through Data and Evaluation (TIDE) is being launched to examine how approaches to teacher training, classroom practice and professional development affect pupil outcomes.
• Why the teacher development research push could yield huge benefits��
  The new TIDE research project is about “understanding the challenges and triumphs teachers face daily” and identifying the tools and strategies that “truly make a difference”, writes the executive director of research at the National Institute of Teaching.
• Schools ‘reject one in three flexible working requests from women’��
  More than one-third of female school staff had their requests for flexible working denied, according to a report from the union Unison showing that women working in public services repeatedly have their requests refused.
• Exclusive: Schools face ‘crossing red lines’ with budget cuts
  Schools will be left “having to cross red lines” in their budget cuts, a leading school business professional has warned, as polling reveals growing concerns about money running out within the next two years.
• Revealed: The ‘sickening’ rise in supply costs hitting schools
  A ����Vlog investigation has revealed a huge increase in schools’ supply staff costs, with leaders saying the rise has been driven by the growing support needs of pupils, teacher shortages and higher supply prices.
• Cutting tutoring funding would be ‘a national travesty’��
  The government has been warned that it would be a “tragedy” to cut tutoring after reports that there will be no future funding for the National Tutoring Programme in the Spring Budget.
• ‘Green shoots’ on attendance, says Baroness Barran��
  The minister for the school system this week said there were signs of progress in tackling pupil absence and also that the government was still committed to creating an out-of-school register.
• GCSE resits: Minimum teaching time rules criticised
  Introducing minimum teaching hours for students resitting GCSE maths and English shows an “alarming lack of understanding” of teacher shortages, a school leaders’ union has warned.
• Plan school places ‘constructively’ with councils, trusts told��
  Academy trusts and local authorities are expected to work together to increase and reduce school places in line with changing demand, according to newly updated government guidance.
• Extending the school day ‘could cut absence’��
  Lengthening the school day would help disadvantaged pupils by give them more access to extracurricular activities and improve attendance, according to Education Policy Institute research.
• Libby Nicholas: ‘If you’ve lost hope, get out of the job’��
  In �ձ��’ How I Lead series, Libby Nicholas, a former MAT CEO and current independent school group managing director, shares the key lessons she has learned in school leadership.
• Autism support delays ‘show the system must change’��
  The massive increase in children waiting for autism assessments since the pandemic proves that a different approach is needed, writes Anne Longfield, executive chair of the Centre for Young Lives.

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