General
Saturday
8th Oct 2022
Warning: Tens of thousands of school jobs could go without new funding
The government’s insistence on sticking to its current spending plans is likely to cost thousands of education workers their jobs, warns the Institute for Fiscal Studies
IB chief warns over online learning teacher surveillance risk
International Baccalaureate director-general talks to Tes about potential remote learning pitfalls for teachers and why he has green-lit online assessment
Friday
7th Oct 2022
Ex-DfE adviser: ‘Ridiculous’ that schools face Westminster chaos
Former Department for Education adviser says Liz Truss’s government has ‘deprioritised education’
Ofsted warned over refusal to share school inspection aides
Sector leaders say they cannot understand why Ofsted does not publish inspection materials it uses to help make ‘crucial’ decisions about schools
Horrors of slavery should be core part of curriculum, heads told
Racism is a consequence of slavery, and the history of slavery must be taught truthfully to change attitudes, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer tells schools
Need to know: Teacher pay, strikes and ‘appalling’ comments
Your roundup of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including the government’s stance on teacher pay, a strike ultimatum and the education secretary’s controversial speech
Let school business leaders help with Treasury cash plea, ministers urged
Exclusive: The Institute for School Business Leadership has written to the schools minister to warn the current schools funding situation is ‘unsustainable’
The Tes quiz: towers, titans and theatre stalwarts
Pit your wits against Tes’ weekly general knowledge quiz...
Teacher trainee shortage fears as ITT cold spots revealed
Exclusive: Government faces fresh calls for a ‘pragmatic and realistic approach’ to tackling teacher training cold spots created by its controversial ITT provider shake-up
Thursday
6th Oct 2022
Northern Ireland school leaders vote for industrial action on pay
Industrial action is moving closer in all parts of the UK, with Northern Ireland’s heads ‘caught in a vicious circle’ over teacher pay
Why grammar school rumblings are not worth worrying about
Ever since Liz Truss came to power, rumours of the return of grammar schools have bubbled up – but the political reality is it’s highly unlikely ever to come to fruition, as Sam Freedman explains
More school cuts risk a drop in standards, Truss warned
Twelve staff and parent organisations have written to the prime minister to warn that further budget cuts will inevitably mean the loss of teachers and support staff