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Revealed: Scale of Ofsted complaints under report card framework
Data showing that one in 20 inspection activities resulted in a complaint has been published in the watchdog’s annual report and accounts for 2025-26
Ofsted inspection
The purpose of KS3 cannot simply be prep for GCSEs
We need to see key stage 3 as a key intervention point that is reactive to the critical period of early adolescence, argues Becks Boomer-Clark
KS3 not just for GCSE prep
Coastal schools shouldn’t be encouraging students to ‘escape’
Telling pupils in coastal communities that school is a springboard to ‘escape’ is a harmful message that deprives these towns of the very people they need to thrive, says head Hannah Carter
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3 things affecting teenagers’ mental health
Researchers at the BrainWaves conference last week summarised a range of studies that tell us more about adolescent wellbeing, and how schools might be able to support young people’s mental health
Mental health support
Fears about digital exams don’t ‘stack up’, says AQA boss
Despite recent high-profile problems with traditional pen-and-paper exams, the CEO of England’s biggest exam board tells 91¶¶Òõ that there should be more urgency in introducing on-screen assessment
Colin Hughes
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How the GLD target could hide a growing early years divide
The early years disadvantage gap is at its widest since 2014, research shows, raising questions about whose progress getting 75 per cent of children to a good level of development will rely on
early years disadvantage gap