Scaled scores for 2024 key stage 2 SATs announced - Schools Week
Jul 9, 2024 · The Department for Education has today released the marks pupils needed for the 2024 key stage 2 SATs to achieve the government’s “expected” score.
Pay scales for teachers and leaders from September 2024
Oct 21, 2024 · The new pay scales for 2024-2025 have been confirmed by the Department for Education.. It comes after the government approved teacher and leader pay rises of 5.5 per cent, pledging to hand schools £1.2 billion towards the cost of covering them.. But the School Teachers’ Review Body estimated its recommendations would cost around £1.65 billion over a whole school year, and the DfE has said ...
‘Ofsted Numberwang’: Backlash over leaked report card plans
Nov 22, 2024 · Proposals for new Ofsted report cards will be too confusing for parents and could spawn a “whole new host of issues”, leaders say, after leaked plans last week caused widespread kickback.
Bridget Phillipson: Who is the new education secretary? - Schools …
Jul 5, 2024 · Phillipson has been an MP since 2010.She was elected to represent Houghton and Sunderland South. She is the first MP representing a north east constituency to be education secretary since Edward Short, who served under Harold Wilson in the late 1960s.
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6 key school findings from biggest annual parent survey
Most parents said school absence fines would not deter them for taking their child on holiday during term-time, with the majority saying it's fine to skip class to get away
Sixth form college teachers vote to strike over pay
Nov 11, 2024 · Teachers in 32 sixth form colleges have voted to take strike action after the government snubbed them in this year’s school teacher pay award.. The National Education Union has announced strikes on November 28, December 3 and 4 as they continue to seek “urgent clarification” from the government on whether the £300 million announced at the budget for further education should be spent on pay.
Reform UK manifesto 2024: All the schools policies
Jun 17, 2024 · The Reform UK party has pledged a “patriotic school curriculum”, to review the content of history lessons and “ban transgender ideology in schools” in its manifesto published today.
The Knowledge. What really causes teacher shortages?
Professor Stephen Gorard. Director, Evidence Centre for Education, Durham University. 24 Oct 2024, 0:01
SEND review: DfE finally publishes improvement plan - Schools Week
Mar 2, 2023 · 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 proposed changes first, before they are finalised (full story here).