Senior reporter @tes, covering Ofsted, unions, curriculum, teacher training & AI. Former @cityjournalism, ✍🏻 The Times, Big Issue, Metro (pronounced Keh-Riss)
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Excl: Schools are “drowning” in subject access complaints, driven by AI, fractured parent relationships & unclear guidance.
✍️One trust tells me they’ve seen a 2000% increase in requests post Covid & has spent £100k on answering requests in just a year.
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Excl: Schools are “drowning” in subject access complaints, driven by AI, fractured parent relationships & unclear guidance.
✍️One trust tells me they’ve seen a 2000% increase in requests post Covid & has spent £100k on answering requests in just a year.
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Schools are being overwhelmed by SARs - costing substantial sums of cash and taking time away from teaching.
@cerysturner7 has the details in this week's MAT Tracker newsletter - sign up (and read) for free here: tes-magazine-mat-tracker.bee…
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NEW: BBC will no longer have a dedicated education editor as part of proposal that will see 100 jobs go across BBC News.
School leaders call the plan “deeply regrettable” and ask for a rethink.
Education/Social affairs editor jobs being combined.
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Big change at the top of the DfE
Exclusive from @cerysturner7
Susan Acland-Hood is set to leave her role as permanent secretary to the Department for Education, Tes can reveal
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Scoop: The DfE’s permanent secretary is leaving her role.
Susan Acland-Hood joined the dept in 2020 after working at the Treasury & Home Office.
She will now be leaving the dept after six years at the helm.
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We’ve had a change in government since the big SEND reforms were announced in February – so will they go ahead as planned? @jasminenorden looks at what we know so far
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Excl: Draft proposals for national curriculum and GCSE subjects delayed. DfE had previously committed to September consultation on draft progs of study and subject content - now ‘later in the year’. @tes
Story w @cerysturner7
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📅Excl: Public consultation on the national curriculum has been delayed until the end of the year.
The DfE committed to publishing draft subject plans this September - but we can now reveal that proposals have been pushed back by several months.
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NEW: A third education union has declared no confidence in Ofsted's leadership, calling attempts at reform "dishonest and deficient".
@NAHTnews has agreed to explore "all actions necessary" to challenge the inspection framework & its impact on leaders.
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The NEU teaching union has called on Ofsted chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver to step aside after a survey suggested that almost all of its members do not have confidence in the watchdog’s leadership
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The DfE says it will be able to make a call within 20 days on applications for exec pay to exceed the pay threshold. Under similar rules in FE, it is actually taking up to six months.
Great work here from @JabedAhm
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Is Ofsted on the brink - and is there a way back?
There's a lot of new data on Ofsted today, a lot of noise, but this from @JohnGRoberts cuts through it all and is the thing you need to read to really understand the mess Ofsted is in.
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The first commissioned evaluation of the inspection framework is out - and squashed any hope of redemption Ofsted may have.
Heads report mental health concerns, workload pressures & doubt over how context was considered.
+ Just 1 in 10 say no wellbeing impact from inspection.
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Ofsted’s national director for education says that critics have made “sweeping claims” about the sector’s view of inspection in recent weeks.
Lee Owston says they are “buoyed by the balance in the findings” today.
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My colleague @JohnGRoberts explores how Ofsted can answer its critics - who now even include the education secretary - as new pressure mounts by the week.
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