School support staff unions accept £1,290 pay deal
Oct 23, 2024 · Unions representing school support staff have accepted a pay rise worth at least £1,290 after the biggest failed to meet the threshold for strike action.
2024 in review | Schools Week
Dec 12, 2024 · Over-reliance on special schools has finally been acknowledged, but the fix could be worse if it isn’t properly thought... Labour have started the ball rolling where they can this year, but secondary schools still face an ongoing uphill... Expectations of the new government have climbed even as ...
Labour manifesto 2024: All the schools policies
Jun 13, 2024 · The manifesto only sets out policies that have already been announced, although some have inevitably evolved or changed slightly since they were announced – some as long ago as 2021.. Further details on what the party has said on its policies before can be found in our policy tracker.. In the document, the party pledged to “drive up standards, modernise the school curriculum, reform ...
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).
The Knowledge. New data sheds light on hours spent at school
Oct 10, 2024 · In 2022, the then government laid out a new expectation that state-funded mainstream schools should deliver a school week of at least 32.5 hours from this term. Now, new census data allows us for the first time to better understand the length of the school week across the country and its relationship with pupil outcomes.
Ofsted Big Listen: The 12 policies schools need to know
Sep 3, 2024 · Ofsted has set out a raft of changes today following the biggest consultation in its history.. These include notifying leaders of forthcoming inspections on a Monday, reforming its inspection framework ahead of the rollout of report cards and new safeguarding letters.
Ofsted report cards: What we know so far… - schoolsweek.co.uk
Sep 6, 2024 · The government has said its new Ofsted report cards will offer parents a “much clearer, much broader picture of how schools are performing”, while lowering the stakes of inspection for schools.
Schools Week | The latest schools & education news
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Lib Dems manifesto 2024: All the schools policies
Jun 10, 2024 · The party has said its revenue schools policies will cost an extra £2.17 billion by 2028, while its capital plans will cost £1.9 billion a year. But beyond capital, no breakdown for individual proposals has been provided. Schools Week previously estimated that proposals signed off at last year’s Lib Dem conference could cost more than £9 billion. ...
GCSE results 2024: 7 key trends in England’s data - Schools Week
Aug 22, 2024 · For the second year running, business studies saw the highest percentage jump in entries among subjects taken by more than 100,000 students. Numbers have been growing since 2018, but this summer its rise dropped from 14.8 per cent last year to 9.7 per cent.