Friday
DfE rejects union funding calls over £370m mistake
Schools minister Nick Gibb has written to union leaders after they called for a 2.7 per cent increase in funding to be restored to NFF allocations
Gibb refuses unions’ demand over £370m school funding
The schools minister has rejected education unions’ call for the DfE to restore per-pupil funding to the amount announced in July
NI heads deliver census returns by hand amid pay ‘gridlock’
The NAHT Northern Ireland school leaders’ union says it is ‘unprecedented’ that headteachers would take such action
Stop ‘tinkering’ over SEND school policy, DfE told
Senior government figures should make marginalised and vulnerable pupils their policy ‘starting point’, says headteachers’ leader Geoff Barton
Demand for changes to stop ‘violence and disorder’ in schools
The ‘worrying decline in pupil behaviour’ in Scottish schools will be highlighted by a teaching union at the SNP annual conference in Aberdeen
CST chair Rob McDonough to step down
Vice-chair of the Confederation of School Trusts, Rory Blackwell, will act as interim chair while the process to find a replacement is ongoing
What’s behind PE’s remarkable rise in Scotland?
The growth in students taking PE at Higher level is a sign of a sea change in how the subject is viewed in Scottish schools
Tutoring: 3 ways to improve uptake and impact
Whoever wins the next election should commit to maintaining tutoring for pupil premium pupils to help tackle the disadvantage gap, says Action Tutoring CEO
SEND: 1 in 5 primary teachers have ‘nowhere near’ enough support
Heads call for more high-needs funding and warn that schools cannot afford more teaching assistants to cope
4 in 10 teachers report frequent negativity about maths
Secondary students are more likely to be negative about maths than primary pupils, research shows
Thursday
Ofsted: MPs set to probe school inspection
Ofsted school inspections will come under the spotlight next week when unions, governors, parents and pupils give evidence to a Commons inquiry
Unions demand DfE restores £370m per-pupil funding
The national funding formula allocations for schools were revised down last week after the DfE announced a technical error in processing pupil numbers
