General
Friday
15th Mar 2024
Outgoing union boss to chair oracy commission
Geoff Barton to take role after Labour said its Curriculum and Assessment Review will explore how to weave oracy into lessons throughout school
GCSEs 2024: Exam board to trial AI in summer exams
The country’s biggest exam board will test how AI can be used to provide ‘quality assurance’ to human marking
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Thursday
14th Mar 2024
Faster school mental health team rollout urged amid ‘crisis’
Calls for more support for schools after children’s commissioner report shows children are waiting ‘far too long’ for mental health treatment
Weekly round-up: ITT target cut and Keegan ‘punch’ row
ÌÇÐÄVlog’ education news round-up includes the lowering of the target for recruiting secondary teacher trainees and controversy over Gillian Keegan’s Ofsted ‘punch’ comment
FM accepts classroom violence is causing new teachers to drop out
Humza Yousaf made the admission when quizzed about a ÌÇÐÄVlog Scotland exclusive revealing almost one in five probationers have opted out of this year’s induction scheme
Badly run and designed schools create additional needs, hear MSPs
Over a third of Scottish pupils have an ASN, but that figure would be lower if school buildings and cultures were developed with all pupils in mind, says expert
Suspended students ‘a year behind at GCSE’
Report calls for schools to be given the resources they need to reduce suspensions
Tuesday
12th Mar 2024
Transgender guidance: Fight legal cases for schools, DfE told
Teaching unions voice fears about draft transgender guidance in their submissions to the government’s consultation
Sir Kevan: Tighten rules so top state schools take poor pupils
Former ‘catch-up tsar’ Sir Kevan Collins warns of a ‘strange pattern’ of high-performing schools not reflecting local communities
Keegan urged to publicly retract Ofsted punch comment
Union representing Ofsted HMI has today written to Gillian Keegan after comments she made at the annual ASCL conference
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Poorer NI primary pupils ‘a year behind in cognitive skills’
New Audit Office report on child poverty in Northern Ireland shows attainment gap at school starts early and remains wide in the years to come