Secondary
Thursday
21st Mar 2024
Cambridge warns over PM plan to ditch ‘A level’ name
There is also not enough school space or teachers to deliver Rishi Sunak’s Advanced British Standard plan, its exam board OCR warns
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Teacher vacancies remain high post-Covid
Experts warn school recruitment will never quite return to pre-pandemic levels as hard-to-hire regions continue to face worse struggle to fill posts
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Wednesday
20th Mar 2024
Advanced British Standard: 5 issues raised by heads
Union warns that the government consultation on creating a new post-16 qualification is ‘fundamentally flawed’
Gilruth: Some Scottish secondaries schools ‘too big’
Children are becoming ‘lost’ in ‘huge schools’ and it’s bad for the relationships that are key to improving behaviour and attainment, says education secretary
DfE could under-recruit in 10 secondary subjects this year
Fears of under-recruitment of teacher trainees for the third year in a row remain despite a rise in bursaries, an increase in applications and a reduction in recruitment targets
Thursday
7th Mar 2024
SQA: Exam grading will take coursework return into account
The Scottish exams body also confirms that appeals will be free of charge this year and students will retain the right to appeal directly
What Scottish literature should students in upper secondary study?
The SQA is asking teachers and secondary students for feedback on the Scottish set texts studied as part of National 5 and Higher English courses