General
Wednesday
Cutting class-contact time ‘missing piece of jigsaw’, says Gilruth
More ‘time for teachers’ is key to tackling behaviour and poor attendance, says education secretary – but it won’t be delivered this year
Trusts alarmed at Keegan’s ‘change of tone’ on academies
Confederation of School Trusts seeks ‘urgent clarification’ over education secretary Gillian Keegan’s comments about academisation
DfE’s new South West regional director named
Lucy Livings, deputy director of the South West’s regions group, is set to replace Hannah Woodhouse
School leaders demand ungraded inspections
Watchdog should put graded inspections on hold until it implements reforms and should also drop single-word judgements, an NAHT survey finds
Under-threat NTP ‘boosted 400,000 grades’
It would be a ‘national travesty’ not to renew funding for the national tutoring scheme, a social mobility expert warns
Monday
Ofsted: Staff wellbeing continues to be top of mind
Comments demonstrate ‘upside-down thinking’ and show Ofsted is ‘out of touch’ with the profession, biggest teaching union claims
DfE ‘reinserts’ list of tasks teachers should not do
List aimed at cutting teacher workload includes ‘investigating a pupil’s absence’ and ‘producing and collating analyses of attendance figures’
DfE to scrap performance-related pay
The government has said it will conduct a ‘rapid review’ to clear the way for a replacement from 1 September
DfE guidance aims to ‘tackle bullying and harassment’ of school staff
The Department for Education is expected to publish the initial recommendations from its workload reduction ‘task force’ today
GBV report calls for relationships education review
The inspectorate-led review should include recommendations on ‘sufficiency of resources and training’ for Welsh schools, says Senedd report into gender-based violence
