Keep up to date with the latest developments in education in schools. Not only the facts, but how schools are responding to them.
School sixth forms have faced budget cuts of 21% per student since their peak in 2010–11, while total school spending per pupil has fallen by 8% in real terms since 2009–10 ...
READThe Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published new analysis looking at how parents choose which secondary schools to send their children to in England....
READKS2 results showed an improved performance overall this year, though substantial variations remain between LAs, while girls continued to outperform boys in reading and writing....
READA 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....
READThe DfE have analysed LAs' block funding and found that most of them are almost doing NFF, so have delayed the real thing...
READIncreases 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....
READIt'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...
READThere 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....
READDifferences between batches of academy convertors - very few similarities...
READhe government should consider phasing the existing selective schools out, Durham University researchers say....
READRaising achievement of English as additional language pupils in schools: implications for policy and practice ...
READThe possible role of DNA differences between students of different schools types on exam performance...
READThe role that schools have in determining whether school leavers participate in higher education or not...
READHow the number and characteristics of teachers in each leadership role and how this has changed over time....
READAttitudes to evidence and ‘what works’ in school decision-making and how targeted money for less well-off pupils is spent...
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