England's most efficient schools
Date: 05.12.2018The DfE gives all mainstream schools a score based on income vs progress. Here are the top scoring schools...
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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.
Update on changes to the school accountability system in...
Date: 04.12.2018This roundup up of key articles and policy updates gives a brief summary of the latest policy influences on school accountability...
READUpdate on the rise of the curriculum
Date: 04.12.2018Does a national curriculum still exist? Here's a round up of the various key policies that have affected the curriculum since 2016....
READWhy it costs £73,000 to educate a child
Date: 03.12.2018Children from poor backgrounds in England now have more spent on their education than those from better-off families...
READHidden cost of reduced SEN provision
Date: 03.12.2018Councils spent more than £160m last year on taxis to transport children with SEND to and from school....
READTeacher recruitment in non-EBacc subjects only 2/3 of...
Date: 03.12.2018While, overall, recruitment is up this year - it's not meeting schools' needs still. Physics and D&T in trouble....
READOfsted getting tougher?
Date: 03.12.2018Maybe, but primaries still find it easier to be outstanding. Meanwhile 2/3 of inspected Outstanding schools declined....
READDecline in vocational continues
Date: 03.12.2018Latest DfE data shows a decrease of 9.3% in vocational certificates on the same quarter of 2017...
READHealthy Minds - dramatic results from LSE
Date: 30.11.2018Healthy Minds investigates how students can be supported to develop emotional resilience and self efficacy....
READThe link between exclusions, alternative provision and...
Date: 16.11.2018Reports of schools off-rolling pupils to boost performance have been rife in 2018. FFT looked at some demographic factors...
READDoes good progress mean better Ofsted rating?
Date: 16.11.2018Education Datalab wondered what kind of relationship exists between Key Stage 2 progress scores and inspection ratings....
READIs your school collecting too much pupil data?
Date: 06.11.2018Schools need to review whether or not they are collecting too much pupil data, and whether they are making good use of the data they do collect...
READOffrolling students: culprits exposed in new analysis
Date: 06.11.2018A new ranking by The Guardian shows four academy chains lost up to 7% of pupils prior to exams...
READWhere will the budget 'bonus' be spent?
Date: 04.11.2018Schoolzone polled teachers, not on how offended they were, but how they might spend the budget windfall....
READAssessment under the 2019 Ofsted framework
Date: 02.11.2018We polled schools on whether Ofsted's reduced focus on performance will affect their assessment practices...
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