General
Monday
7th Oct 2024
Unions call for urgent DfE action on pay, workload and funding
Teacher and school leader unions call for future pay increases to be significantly above RPI inflation, and oppose any introduction of targeted pay
NEU reps to push for home PPA time in academy trusts
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede also says it will be up to the union to make a case for ‘the supposed freedoms of trusts’ to be curtailed over this parliament
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Friday
4th Oct 2024
North East is left out of policymaking, Phillipson warned
Sector leaders in the North East have written to the education secretary to warn about a lack of representation in recently announced Ofsted and curriculum reviews
DfE’s West Midlands regional director to retire
Andrew Warren, who has headed up the region for six years, says ‘it feels like the right time’ to depart
SEND provision in mainstream ‘needs to be investigated’
With ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis revealing a sharp rise in pupils in SEND provision in mainstream schools, sector leaders voice concerns about a lack of oversight, guidance and funding
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Phillipson commits to lower Oak National Academy funding
Education secretary sets out a package of reforms in a bid to head off a legal challenge against the curriculum resources quango, ÌÇÐÄVlog can reveal
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Thursday
3rd Oct 2024
Falkirk delays decision on reducing school week
Fraught debate over Falkirk pupils’ learning hours reflects extreme pressures on education budgets felt by local authorities across Scotland
Teacher strikes over Glasgow job cuts put on hold
Strike ballots from both the EIS teaching union and primary school leaders’ body the AHDS failed to meet the 50 per cent turnout threshold
New AI project gives school librarians critical role
School librarians are ‘the guardians of information integrity’ – now they are to play a major role in a new digital literacy project focused on responsible use of generative AI
CfE review: ‘Evolving Curriculum for Excellence, not ripping it up’
Scotland’s decade-long ‘curriculum-improvement cycle’ is underway – our exclusive report shows how it will work
Private schools’ merger highlights sector difficulties
The principal of a new school created from a merger says a long lead-in to the change should ‘mitigate compulsory reductions to roles’, but some jobs will be lost
Restore expert group to tackle absence crisis, DfE urged
The Attendance Action Alliance – set up to ‘supercharge’ efforts to tackle school absence – has not met since May
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