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Headlining the headlines: Where next for exams, learning recovery, and inspection?
From funding news, staffing concerns, and learning recovery through to inspection insights, curriculum matters and exam issues – make use of our news catch-up to choose which headlines to explore further Staffing concerns Female headteachers are £17k worse-off...
Covid catch-up lag, safety concerns, teaching hours’ controversy, funding
News catch-up Making the headlines this month: Covid catch-up lag, teaching hours’ controversy; Covid safety concerns; funding news… Covid catch-up lag Disadvantaged pupils lag behind in Covid catch up, finds new data from the DfE. Recovery in secondary schools has...
Future of exams, lack of recovery cash, back to school plans
Future of exams in balance ASCL wants next year’s exam grades to be pegged back to pre-Covid standards. TAG issue But Schools Minister Nick Gibb told the Education Select Committee that the teacher-assessed grades (TAG) ‘reflected’ how the exam system...
New Covid measures, call for reduced timetable, concerns over arts
Covid measures released for new school year As schools prepared for the start of the new year, government announced new measures to deal with Covid safety and potential disruptions to learning. For many, this was once again ‘too little, too late’. ...
Covid: impact on behaviour, ventilation matters, effect on exams
Covid rules ‘improve pupil behaviour’ Some Covid safety measures have led to better pupil behaviour – and schools plan on keeping them in place as a result. Better for staff and pupils In its response to the government’s consultation on behaviour,...