General
Friday
20th Dec 2024
EIS to ballot over strike action in Glasgow
Union demands reversal of teacher job cuts by end of the year as it points to extra funding for local authorities in this month’s Scottish Budget
Former NEU leader and ex-children’s commissioner made life peers
Mary Bousted and Anne Longfield become Labour peers, while free speech campaigner and free-school founder Toby Young is made a peer by the Conservatives
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
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Ofsted inspections of teaching quality ‘could risk discrepancies’
Expert observers assessing the same lesson can produce different ratings on teacher quality, new research warns
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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
19th Dec 2024
Ofsted to begin new inspection trials in first week of next term
Watchdog to visit volunteer schools to trial its new inspection approach before launching a formal consultation on its plans for new report cards
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?
Stem focus should expand to Steam, MPs’ arts group says
Call made for curriculum review to give more prominence to music, art, sports, drama and vocational subjects
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
Disadvantage gaps are ‘deep-rooted’ but ‘not inevitable’
Research by Education Policy Institute identifies places where schools are ‘beating the odds’ to reduce inequalities