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CASE STUDY: DfE’s benchmarking tools for schools improve financial management

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By: Stuart O'Brien

13th June 2022

DfE’s benchmarking tools help governors, trustees, headteachers, business professionals and local authorities to understand their data and how to use the results. The schools financial benchmarking service The schools financial…

Just 9% of UK schools classed as ‘digitally mature’

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By: Stuart O'Brien

21st March 2022

Just 9% of UK schools are classified as being digitally mature, while nearly one-third (31%) have put a few fundamentals in place necessary to embed digital technology within their school…

Next stage of post-16 qualifications overhaul begins

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By: Stuart O'Brien

26th October 2020

The next step in the government’s overhaul of post-16 qualifications has begun, following its initial move last year to remove funding from qualifications that overlap with T Levels and A…

OPINION: Hike in visa costs stemming flow of foreign teachers to UK schools

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4th February 2020

Emma Roberts, Director of teacher recruitment and retention specialist Teach In, discusses the changing immigration landscape ahead of Brexit and its impact on the UK teacher recruitment shortage… Under new…

DfE outlines Teacher and Retention Strategy

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By: Stuart O'Brien

1st February 2019

The Department for Education (DfE) has published its Teacher and Retention Strategy, outlining four key areas for focus. Those areas are: Creating supportive school cultures (including ‘an active focus on…

Government trumpets phonics success in primary schools

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By: Stuart O'Brien

1st October 2018

163,000 more 6-year-olds are on track to become fluent readers since the introduction of the phonics screening check in 2012, according to official figures. The results of this year’s phonics…

BESA welcomes DfE’s educational technology stance

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By: Stuart O'Brien

17th August 2018

The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) says it will work with the Department for Education to deliver free software trials for schools and a series of best-practice regional ‘demonstrator’ roadshows…

NAHT: Government’s policy on Grammar school expansion “misguided”

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By: Stuart O'Brien

15th May 2018

The National Association of Head teachers (NAHT) has responded to the Department for Education’s (DfE) announcement of £50 million to expand grammar schools across the country, calling the policy “misguided”.…

Government urged to protect child safeguarding budget in schools

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By: Stuart O'Brien

7th June 2017

Leading safeguarding experts Ethica Solutions has urged the Government to protect budget for statutory child safeguarding training and Continual Professional Development (CPD) for teachers. Radicalisation, gang culture and child sexual…

Corbyn: “Children crammed into ‘super-sized’ classes like sardines”

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By: Stuart O'Brien

25th April 2017

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has highlighted Department for Education figures which showed more than 40,000 primary school children are taught in classes of 36 or more pupils, and has claimed…