General
Monday
13th Mar 2023
‘Teachers are the best curricula makers in the room’
Curriculum design works best if teachers are given the autonomy to lead it – and time and money to match, says Ewan McIntosh
NEU left out of latest DfE union talks amid strike stalemate
Gillian Keegan is meeting with leaders of NAHT, ASCL and NASUWT but government sources say talks with NEU will only happen if it halts latest teacher strike
The reality of leading a small MAT into a merger with a bigger partner
As the multi-academy trust sector evolves, many smaller trusts will be subsumed into larger entities. A former chief executive of a small trust talks candidly about what this experience is like – and the positive impacts it can have
Friday
10th Mar 2023
Ofsted chief: Complaints process not ‘satisfying’ schools
Amanda Spielman also admits that pupil voice has been given too much weight in some Ofsted school inspections, speaking at a headteachers’ conference this morning
Teacher strikes: EIS union members vote to accept pay offer
Teacher strike action over pay started in November in Scotland but all industrial action has now been called off by the EIS, Scotland’s biggest teaching union
Stop ‘trading in fatuous soundbites’, Keegan told
Headteachers’ leader to urge education secretary to come forward with a pay offer and end the teacher strikes
Snow, strikes and soundbites - the pay dispute must be settled
As ASCL’s annual conference begins, general secretary Geoff Barton outlines why political posturing around teacher strikes is getting the sector nowhere and needs to end
Why tackling attendance may be about to get much easier
School leaders and ministers have lamented the post-Covid drop in school attendance, but a tech solution may help schools reverse the trend, finds Dan Worth
10 MATs lined up to run attendance hubs
Project started by Northern Education Trust set to be rolled out to major multi-academy trusts after call from Gillian Keegan
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DfE ‘concern’ over off-site schooling
Government concerned at quality of education at alternative settings outside of schools, Tes has learned
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Schools forced to become ‘4th emergency service’
Schools are having to run an unofficial welfare service for pupils, a heads union leader will warn today after a survey shows most heads say local child support services are ‘inadequate’