General
Tuesday
30th Jan 2024
Call for mandatory autism training for teachers
Conservative MP introduces parliamentary bill, saying training for teachers would help the early diagnosis of autism
Leaders ‘must retain’ right to strike over Ofsted ‘danger’
School leaders’ union warns unions will have no choice but to take industrial action if government fails to remedy ‘neglect and underinvestment’
Widening HE access ‘not squeezing people out’, says commissioner
Professor John McKendrick’s first annual report also says progress widening access to university in Scotland has ‘stalled’ despite a record number of students from deprived backgrounds securing places in 2021-22
Early career and trainee teachers to share updated framework
Combined framework will set out how teachers should be trained in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, oracy and mental health
Monday
29th Jan 2024
Call for CEO pay limits in major shake-up of the school system
Academies and maintained schools should be replaced by a single system run by school boards, says think tank
Ofsted must ‘ensure inspectors have expertise’
Cross-bench MPs’ committee is calling on the watchdog to ‘rebuild trust’ and ‘make major changes to school inspections’
Friday
26th Jan 2024
Strikes law ‘will worsen’ teacher shortage
Government plan to impose minimum service levels during teacher strikes will ‘add to the increasing unpopularity of teaching’, unions warn
Ofsted could assess inclusion performance
Inspectorate’s new director of education Lee Owston questions whether it is right that ‘some schools are more inclusive than others’
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Ofsted may probe MATs’ school improvement rate
Still ‘work to do’ to define the purpose that MAT inspection would serve, the Confederation of School Trusts has said
MAT boosts teacher pay to meet living costs
United Learning will pay higher wages than the nationally agreed 6.5 per cent teacher pay rise amid cost-of-living pressure and to reflect ‘the excellence of colleagues’