General
Friday
27th Sep 2024
Heads’ and teachers’ wellbeing in ‘profound crisis’
New data on teacher and headteacher wellbeing, workload, supply teaching and teaching assistants was published today. Here’s what you need to know
Violence in schools in focus again after Fife EIS survey
Teachers report growing concerns about abuse from parents on social media amid what the union describes as a ‘sustained crisis’ of violence and aggression in many schools
Delay private school fee VAT charge or lose teachers ‘permanently’
Headteachers’ and teachers’ leaders have urged ministers to delay implementation of the government’s school fee levy to next September, and to carry out an impact assessment
Demand soars for ‘emergency’ school improvement cash
91¶¶Òõ investigation also reveals that most multi-academy trusts end up taking on schools they have helped using DfE grant
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Experienced teacher pay 9% below 2010 levels despite rise
The 5.5% pay rise is ‘unlikely’ to improve recruitment and retention difficulties, warns the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Wednesday
25th Sep 2024
Call to update exam body’s ‘ageing digital infrastructure’
Around £10 million is needed to bring the technology at Scotland’s qualifications body up to date, says SQA chief executive – who blames its outdated IT systems for blank results-day emails
£15m for schools to open nurseries from next year
In her main party conference speech, the education secretary says new school-based nurseries will improve ‘life chances for children’
Curriculum review launches call for evidence
Professor Becky Francis warns that the current system is failing a third of pupils and says the review will focus on disadvantaged students
Tuesday
24th Sep 2024
Guidance on school breakfasts ‘grossly out of date’, says minister
Minister Stephen Morgan’s comments come after Labour set out plans to pilot breakfast clubs in primary schools
Directed hours rule ‘archaic’, says MAT leader
Becks Boomer-Clark, CEO of Lift Schools, said the teaching profession must ‘have a much more mature, sophisticated and flexible understanding of time’