Lessons in Austerity
Date: 17.09.2018A survey of 12,120 school support staff across the UK by UNISON revealed the extent to which school funding reductions have impacted on this sector of the workforce. It paints a bleak picture....
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Keep up to date with the latest developments in education in schools. Not only the facts, but how schools are responding to them.
National funding formula delays
Date: 13.09.2018The DfE have analysed LAs' block funding and found that most of them are almost doing NFF, so have delayed the real thing...
READThe teacher labour market in England: shortages, subject...
Date: 30.08.2018Increases in non-specialist teachers, problems with recruitment and retention, declining uptake at GCSE in shortage subjects, unaffordable pay rises – where does it all end? EPI suggest centrally funded pay rises for shortage subjects....
READRewards don't improve school attendance
Date: 30.08.2018It's common for schools to offer rewards to motivate individual behaviour but, is this a successful method for improving attendance? Apparently not, say researchers: it makes otherwise poor attenders think they are better at it than...
READThe case for PE becoming a core subject
Date: 29.08.2018There are concerns about PE in schools with inadequate attention paid to it in primary ITT meaning that teachers often lack the confidence and competence to teach PE well and some primary schools hand it over to coaches....
READThe changing nature of academy schools in England
Date: 29.08.2018Differences between batches of academy convertors - very few similarities...
READGrammar schools: a new analysis of social segregation and...
Date: 29.08.2018he government should consider phasing the existing selective schools out, Durham University researchers say....
READRaising achievement of EAL pupils
Date: 29.08.2018Raising achievement of English as additional language pupils in schools: implications for policy and practice ...
READGenetic differences in exam performance between pupils...
Date: 29.08.2018The possible role of DNA differences between students of different schools types on exam performance...
READThe effect of schools on school leavers' university...
Date: 29.08.2018The role that schools have in determining whether school leavers participate in higher education or not...
READSchool leadership: characteristics and trends
Date: 29.08.2018How the number and characteristics of teachers in each leadership role and how this has changed over time....
READBest in Class 2018
Date: 29.08.2018Attitudes to evidence and ‘what works’ in school decision-making and how targeted money for less well-off pupils is spent...
READInternational comparisons
Date: 29.08.2018International comparisons of spending, teacher demographics, salaries and workload...
READThe governing body's role in spending, monitoring and...
Date: 29.08.2018Effective PP spending: accounting for how every £ of the PP budget is spent; having clear criteria and clarity are essentials...
READGCSE results 2018 – What is happening with the reformed...
Date: 28.08.2018It looks as though the pass rates in the 2018 reformed GCSEs have improved at the same rate as for all subjects overall in England...
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