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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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Tes Magazine is temporarily unavailable as a precaution while a global issue affecting thousands of online services continues. We'll let you know as soon as we are back!
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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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Teachers on the upper pay range are no longer entitled to a pay review every year. This is one of several changes in the updated Schools Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
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Really nuanced, evidence-informed view on screens in schools - his message? Don't panic.
The backlash against the rise of screens in schools is growing, but is edtech really harming our pupils? Helen Amass asks Peter Etchells, a member of the government’s expert screen time advisory group
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The proportion of schools that are planning to join a MAT has fallen, @NGAMedia polling shows, with governors citing fears about their school losing its autonomy and identity
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Exclusive: As part of its crackdown on mobile phone use in schools, the DfE said Ofsted would inspect schools' phone policies – but Tes analysis reveals that such policies are rarely mentioned in report cards
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One of the most common queries we get at the moment is 'what is happening with the Send reforms?'.
@jasminenorden has the answer below...
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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Just 5% of schools are graded by Ofsted as having both strengths and weaknesses, a Tes investigation reveals, despite the watchdog’s initial claim that report cards would provide more granular insight
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The ability to reason mathematically is one of the core aims of the primary curriculum, but what does it look like in practice? @jasminenorden asks the experts
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ICYMI: We revealed this week that draft proposals for the national curriculum and GCSE subjects have been delayed until later this year, in a move that one union has called 'frustrating'
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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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Tes investigation reveals just 5 per cent of schools are graded by Ofsted as having both strengths and weaknesses, despite the watchdog’s initial claim that report cards would provide more granular insight
Exclusive: A Tes investigation into the grades awarded in Ofsted inspections suggests the watchdog is failing to live up to its promise to provide a breadth of judgement in individual schools
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The DfE’s draft proposals for the national curriculum and GCSE subjects have been delayed, Tes can exclusively reveal
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Exclusive: A significant number of MATs are using AI to enhance their SEND provision – @cerysturner7 speaks to leaders at three trusts to find out about their projects and the success they’ve had
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🚨 Ofsted klaxon
Repeats comments around 'wanting change' and more emphasis on 'context' - stops short of any new or harder commentary before saying she will not 'duck' the harder problems...
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Students are increasingly likely to rush reading a text and then give a wrong answer, Pisa assessment shows. So what can teachers do to get learners to read more closely? @AlexJQuigley shares research-informed advice
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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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Andy Burnham is putting regionalism back on the agenda, but we don’t need a major restructure to put power over education in the hands of our regions, writes @LesWalton500 of @EducateAdvise
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