Weekly round-up: The research drive to help teachers

Catch up on all your must-read Tes news and analysis here:

• Exclusive: Major study will track teacher training impact on pupils 
  A five-year research project called Teaching Improvement through Data and Evaluation (TIDE) is being launched to examine how approaches to teacher training, classroom practice and professional development affect pupil outcomes.
• Why the teacher development research push could yield huge benefits 
  The new TIDE research project is about “understanding the challenges and triumphs teachers face daily” and identifying the tools and strategies that “truly make a difference”, writes the executive director of research at the National Institute of Teaching.
• Schools ‘reject one in three flexible working requests from women’ 
  More than one-third of female school staff had their requests for flexible working denied, according to a report from the union Unison showing that women working in public services repeatedly have their requests refused.
• Exclusive: Schools face ‘crossing red lines’ with budget cuts
  Schools will be left “having to cross red lines” in their budget cuts, a leading school business professional has warned, as polling reveals growing concerns about money running out within the next two years.
• Revealed: The ‘sickening’ rise in supply costs hitting schools
  A Tes investigation has revealed a huge increase in schools’ supply staff costs, with leaders saying the rise has been driven by the growing support needs of pupils, teacher shortages and higher supply prices.
• Cutting tutoring funding would be ‘a national travesty’ 
  The government has been warned that it would be a “tragedy” to cut tutoring after reports that there will be no future funding for the National Tutoring Programme in the Spring Budget.
• ‘Green shoots’ on attendance, says Baroness Barran 
  The minister for the school system this week said there were signs of progress in tackling pupil absence and also that the government was still committed to creating an out-of-school register.
• GCSE resits: Minimum teaching time rules criticised
  Introducing minimum teaching hours for students resitting GCSE maths and English shows an “alarming lack of understanding” of teacher shortages, a school leaders’ union has warned.
• Plan school places ‘constructively’ with councils, trusts told 
  Academy trusts and local authorities are expected to work together to increase and reduce school places in line with changing demand, according to newly updated government guidance.
• Extending the school day ‘could cut absence’ 
  Lengthening the school day would help disadvantaged pupils by give them more access to extracurricular activities and improve attendance, according to Education Policy Institute research.
• Libby Nicholas: ‘If you’ve lost hope, get out of the job’ 
  In Tes’ How I Lead series, Libby Nicholas, a former MAT CEO and current independent school group managing director, shares the key lessons she has learned in school leadership.
• Autism support delays ‘show the system must change’ 
  The massive increase in children waiting for autism assessments since the pandemic proves that a different approach is needed, writes Anne Longfield, executive chair of the Centre for Young Lives.

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