General
Wednesday
24th Apr 2024
Exams: How Ofqual plans to cope with AI
The exam regulator has set out how it will manage artificial intelligence malpractice and whether it can be used for marking
Cosla: Maintaining teacher numbers will ‘greatly impact pay offer’
Councils also hit out at government promise to reduce class contact time, saying it ‘undermines the opportunity to include it in any negotiations’
Ofsted: Leaders must police AI impact on outcomes
Watchdog will hold heads to account over the use of AI in their schools by staff and students
Claire Burton takes the lead at DfE Regions Group
London regional director steps in as acting director general of the Regions Group while John Edwards takes leave for health reasons
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Poor mental health ‘fuelling’ absence crisis, DfE told
Report warns against ‘punitive approaches’ like parent fines to tackle the problem of low school attendance
Monday
22nd Apr 2024
Starmer: Halt ‘damaging decline’ of PE
Labour says it would boost pupils’ access to team sports and reform the PE curriculum
Most schools train leaders to tackle rising parental complaints
The poll findings follow a 91¶¶Òõ investigation showing schools are struggling to tackle an explosion in complaints from parents since Covid
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Friday
19th Apr 2024
MPs to investigate boys’ poorer school performance
Commons Education Select Committee launches an inquiry into the attainment gap between girls and boys
Teacher recruitment targets not changed in Scotland
Government wants to train 4,000 student teachers next year, yet many new primary teachers can’t get permanent jobs and secondary courses are drastically undersubscribed
MAT chiefs warning over ‘unaffordable’ teacher pay rise
The DfE must issue extra funding to help some schools fund any teacher pay rise for 2024-25 or risk redundancies and reduced provision, prominent MAT leaders have warned
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The two sides of Geoff Barton
In seven years at the helm of the ASCL, Geoff Barton has been one of education’s most prominent figureheads – but now, embarking on a new challenge, he tells 91¶¶Òõ that he sees himself very differently to his public image