Friday
Why hybrid teaching is growing in demand
Six years on from remote learning being introduced as an emergency measure during the pandemic, more and more international schools are looking upon it as a practical solution, says Suzanne Lindley
MAT inspections: leaders warn of duplication and ‘poor value for money’
School sector leaders raise concerns about the value, purpose and equity of the government plan to push ahead with Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts
Data must be our servant in education - not our master
Data is valuable in schools but it doesn’t tell the whole picture – and we become overreliant on it at our peril, writes Mark Zacharias
DfE: All teachers will get SEND and inclusion training
DfE announces a new expectation on training teachers to support pupils with SEND, with £200m funding for new courses
Revealed: where teacher pay falls furthest short of living costs
Teachers in London get thousands in pay uplifts to compensate for historically high housing costs. But, given that staff in many other parts of the country now also face high property costs, does the pay weighting system need reform? Tes investigates
Thursday
SEND reform: what have we learned from DfE listening exercise?
The government has finished a series of public engagement events ahead of announcing its plans for SEND. Here are the key issues to emerge
Ofsted inspects school that postponed Jewish MP visit
Labour MP Damien Egan’s planned visit at Bristol Brunel Academy had sparked plans for a demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists
Children educated at home increase by 15% in a year
One in six children educated at home required SEN support, government figures show, although change in methodology may be a factor in overall rise
Ark CEO among 5 new Ofsted board members
The appointments come after Ofsted’s chair recommended that the inspectorate’s governing board should be ‘revised’
How school leaders can tackle Scotland’s tech gender crisis
The growing gender gap in computing science is worrying not only for equality but also the economy – but there are practical, proven strategies schools leader can adopt, says Toni Scullion
Scholar could ‘cease operating’ after quarter of a century
Scottish online learning platform has seen more than a million student enrolments since 1999, but university host warns the current funding model is ‘not sustainable’
The transformative effect of reducing Reception class sizes
Shackleton Primary more than doubled the number of its children reaching a good level of development after cutting its Reception classes from 30 to 20. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears how it achieved this improvement
