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Adi Bloom
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Theatre trips will no longer be a mandatory part of drama GCSE, teachers are told
Changes to the drama GCSE syllabus mean that teachers can show pupils recordings of theatre performances, rather than taking them to the theatre
8 April 2016
‘Our schools will not be academies,’ says major local authority
Birmingham City Council has passed a motion stating that it does not want its schools to become academies
6 April 2016
Gird your fronted adverbials: 14 grammatical mistakes in the schools White Paper
Eleven-year-olds are now expected to know their definers from their adverbials and their subjects from their indefinite objects. But how good is the DfE’s own grammar? TES parses the White Paper
6 April 2016
Pupils struggle to relate to Shakespeare, survey finds
More than half of English teachers say their pupils find it difficult to connect to the playwright’s work
15 March 2016
An end to the recruitment crisis? Teenagers want to be teachers, survey shows
Teaching was the first-choice profession for almost a fifth of young people questioned
14 March 2016
MPs to investigate running of multi-academy trusts
Inquiry into academy chains amid concerns that many schools are failing their poorest pupils
14 March 2016