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SEND review: DfE finally publishes improvement plan - Schools Week
WEB2 Mar 2023, 10:00. Ministers finally published their special educational needs and disabilities improvement plan today, three years after the SEND review was first launched. The government has pledged to go ahead with most major reforms. However a £70 million “change programme” – which will run for two to three years – will pilot ...
The 10 new attendance rules schools need to know about
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · 6. Flag long-term sick leave with LAs. Schools will have to give councils the name and address of sick pupils who they believe will miss 15 consecutive or cumulative days. Schools will also be “expected to inform a pupil’s social worker and/or youth offending team worker if there are unexplained absences from school”.
Labour curriculum and assessment review panel named - Schools …
WEBAug 30, 2024 · The 12-member panel appointed to review the curriculum and assessment for the new Labour government has been named.. Professor Becky Francis, the chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, was appointed in July to lead the review, pledged by Labour ahead of its victory in this year’s general election. Now Francis has named the remaining 11 members of the independent panel that ...
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WEBFocus on two Ofsted sub-judgments in school growth plans, says DfE. Trusts and councils planning to expand schools told to ‘particularly’ take account of leadership and management and quality…. Jack Dyson. 3h.
New teacher training framework: Everything you need to know
WEBJan 30, 2024 · From September 2025, they will be replaced with the initial teacher training and early career framework (ITTECF). Other changes focus on improving content to help teachers support pupils with SEND, measures aimed at cutting workload for mentors and providing more subject-specific training. Here’s your trusty Schools Week explainer on …
Labour education 'mission': Full details revealed - Schools Week
WEBJul 6, 2023 · Schools should be held to account for pupils’ attainment in at least one creative or vocational subject, Labour has said, in a document setting out its education “mission”.. The document, seen by Schools Week ahead of its official publication later today, sets out more details of the party’s planned curriculum and assessment review, which it said would look at accountability measures.
Mobile phones in schools guidance: What you need to know
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · 1. Ban phones for the whole school day. Schools should “develop a mobile phone policy that prohibits the use of mobile phones and other smart technology with similar functionality to mobile phones”. This should be in place “throughout the school day, including during lessons, the time between lessons, breaktimes and lunchtime”.
A-level results 2024: 8 key trends in England’s data - Schools Week
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Overall performance in England. The proportion of A* and A grades has risen slightly to 27.6 per cent, up from 26.5 per cent last year, a rise of 4.2 per cent. This remains above the 25.2 per cent of top grades in pre-pandemic 2019. This year, 76 per cent of grades were C or above, up on 75.4 per cent last year and 75.5 per cent in 2019.
Exclusion rate back to pre-pandemic norm as suspensions soar
WEBNov 23, 2023 · There were 3,100 permanent exclusions in last year’s autumn term – a rate of 0.04, which is equivalent to four per every 10,000 pupils – the same as the pre-pandemic 2019-20 autumn term. Eighty-six per cent of permanent exclusions were in secondary schools, which had an exclusion rate of 0.07 – slightly below the pre-pandemic 0.08.