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Friday
27th Jun 2025
Cutting teachers’ contact time: councils highlight problems
Scottish local authorities are accused of ‘running down the clock’ on the government’s flagship policy of reducing teachers’ class-contact time
7 findings from survey on working lives of teachers and school leaders
DfE publishes full report – including findings on behaviour, inspection and flexible working – of its 2024 survey
How Ofsted will inspect the impact of AI use in schools
Ofsted releases information for schools on how it will look at the effect of artificial intelligence on teaching and learning – but says it does not yet have enough evidence to define good use of AI
Exam board apologises for physics A-level errors
Institute of Physics contacts exam boards ‘urgently seeking reassurances’, as OCR apologises for mistakes in papers
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Trainees from overseas sleep in libraries and rely on food banks
International trainees and teachers are helping to tackle England’s recruitment crisis, but those who move here face huge obstacles. Cerys Turner explores why this is – and what should be done about it
Are regional advisory boards being wound down?
Elections to the DfE’s regional advisory boards are due – but no votes have been planned, ÌÇÐÄVlog understands, fuelling speculation that the boards, which advise on academy decisions, could be scrapped
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Thursday
26th Jun 2025
DfE will not continue funding for trust CEO course
The National Institute of Teaching’s trust leader development programme will no longer be funded by the government, ÌÇÐÄVlog can reveal
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CfE review lead: ‘Teachers will need extra in-service days’
Scotland’s biggest teaching union also calls for extra time for teachers to engage with the review amid concerns that the process so far is ‘lacking’ input from early years and primary staff
School funding: 4 changes for next year
The DfE sets out how local authorities are allocating funding for next year through the National Funding Formula
Ofsted inspection teams to be more ‘context-aware’
Watchdog announces change to ensure that inspection teams have experience of the type of setting they are inspecting, in response to concerns raised in consultation
TA-led scheme boosts Year 2 numeracy, finds EEF
Intervention led by teaching assistants improves the progress of pupils struggling with maths by two months, according to the Education Endowment Foundation