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Tuesday
27th Feb 2024
Why are more Scottish students leaving school after S4?
For two years running the proportion of school leavers from S6 has fallen and the proportions from S4 and S5 have increased – but why?
Cutting NTP cash ‘highly detrimental’, MPs warn Hunt
Cross-party MPs, including Commons Education Select Committee chair Robin Walker, write to the chancellor ahead of spring Budget calling for ‘life-changing’ tutoring cash to continue
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Monday
26th Feb 2024
Mentors to stop misogyny in schools under Labour pledge
Research shows a big increase in references to misogyny, sexism and sexual harassment in Ofsted inspection reports
Glasgow cuts: 450 teaching jobs to go over three years
The authority is looking to save £27.8 million – but unions warn the move will negatively impact all children and lead to an increase in exclusions
Friday
23rd Feb 2024
Former Keegan adviser gets Ofsted strategy role
Rory Gribbell, who has held jobs in the DfE and Downing Street, has been made Ofsted’s director of strategy and engagement
Heads’ mental health ‘ravaged’ by Ofsted
Watchdog’s ‘softening the edges’ approach will not be enough to tackle the scale of the problem, warns Headrest UK
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Revealed: What the largest trusts paid their CEOs in 2022-23
91¶¶Òõ has analysed the published accounts of more than 50 of the country’s largest MATs to break down chief executive pay
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Thursday
22nd Feb 2024
Glasgow plans £27.8m cut to education
Over three years the ‘education service reform’ would mean teacher numbers being cut in primaries and secondaries and a reduction in promoted posts
Weekly round-up: Trust CEO pay and banning phones
This week’s essential education news includes 91¶¶Òõ analysis of what the biggest MATs paid their chief executives last year, and new government guidance recommending that schools ban phones
Teachers ‘do the most unpaid overtime’
Two in five teachers have worked extra hours without payment in the past year, TUC study finds