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Curriculum and assessment review: 14 key points
The Francis review’s final recommendations include scrapping the EBacc, reducing exam time and making triple science available to all at GCSE
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🧵 The curriculum and assessment review has been published – here, @cerysturner.bsky.social rounds up the main recommendations, including scrapping the EBacc and making triple science accessible to all at GCSE (1/3)
Breaking: An appeal by @naht.org.uk bidding for a judicial review into Ofsted’s new school inspections has been rejected
Heads’ union loses appeal against Ofsted ruling
The NAHT had appealed against a decision not to grant a judicial review into the launch of new Ofsted school inspections
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November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Breaking: An appeal by @naht.org.uk bidding for a judicial review into Ofsted’s new school inspections has been rejected
Ofsted’s new inspections have created extra workload for school staff and put pressure on inspection teams, warns @ascl-uk.bsky.social
Ofsted’s new inspections cause ‘greater stress’, warn heads
But schools taking part in the first inspections under the new report-card system also report that the process feels more collaborative
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November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ofsted’s new inspections have created extra workload for school staff and put pressure on inspection teams, warns @ascl-uk.bsky.social
🇵🇪 What’s it like working in Peru, the third-largest country in South America? Four international school leaders and teachers share their views – from behaviour and safeguarding to culture, travel and lifestyle
The view from Peru: teaching in South America’s third-largest country
Four leaders and teachers at international schools in Peru share their insights into the joys and challenges of working in a country of ‘fantastic opportunities’ that isn’t on most applicants’ radar
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November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🇵🇪 What’s it like working in Peru, the third-largest country in South America? Four international school leaders and teachers share their views – from behaviour and safeguarding to culture, travel and lifestyle
🌏 Could more state schools look at launching schools overseas to bolster their finances? 'Don’t expect Grange Hill Singapore any time soon,’ one leader tells @emmaseith.bsky.social
Will more state schools set up lucrative overseas campuses?
With one state grammar announcing plans to open schools in Dubai and India, what are the implications for the state sector? ‘Don’t expect Grange Hill Singapore any time soon,’ one leader tells Emma Seith
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November 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
🌏 Could more state schools look at launching schools overseas to bolster their finances? 'Don’t expect Grange Hill Singapore any time soon,’ one leader tells @emmaseith.bsky.social
MPs have launched an inquiry into why fewer children are reading for pleasure – and what schools are doing to get pupils into books
‘Generational shift’ in reading for pleasure sparks inquiry
MPs will investigate why fewer children are reading at home and highlight good in practice in schools that is getting pupils into books
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November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
MPs have launched an inquiry into why fewer children are reading for pleasure – and what schools are doing to get pupils into books
📌 With more and more schools joining area-based education partnerships, @ellencph.bsky.social explains what they are and the benefits of joining one, from better support for children to school improvement initiatives
What are area-based education partnerships?
As more schools join these local collaborative groups, Ellen Peirson-Hagger explains how they work and why they matter
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November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📌 With more and more schools joining area-based education partnerships, @ellencph.bsky.social explains what they are and the benefits of joining one, from better support for children to school improvement initiatives
Where do headteachers face the biggest gender pay gap? Tes analysis shows the regions with the biggest pay disparities, and how these gaps have changed in recent years ⬇️
How does the headteacher gender pay gap vary across England?
Male secondary heads earn more in every region of England, but the size of the gap is heavily dependent on geography, Tes analysis reveals
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Where do headteachers face the biggest gender pay gap? Tes analysis shows the regions with the biggest pay disparities, and how these gaps have changed in recent years ⬇️
📡 MAT Tracker: Former regional schools commissioner Paul Smith has been appointed as the new CEO of East Midlands Education Trust
EMET appoints Paul Smith as new chief executive
The Northern Schools Trust chief education officer says he is excited to create ‘world-class’ opportunities for pupils and staff when he takes up the post
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📡 MAT Tracker: Former regional schools commissioner Paul Smith has been appointed as the new CEO of East Midlands Education Trust
A MAT leader explains how his trust turned a simple tender and procurement process into a real example of pupil agency and impact
How we gave pupils real input on a major trust decision
The CEO of a 26-school trust explains how it gave young people a voice in its food tendering process to turn a promise of pupil agency into real-world impact
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November 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A MAT leader explains how his trust turned a simple tender and procurement process into a real example of pupil agency and impact
Teachers fear the introduction of a Year 8 reading test will worsen student engagement and narrow the curriculum, an NEU poll shows
Teachers warn Year 8 reading test will ‘sap joy’ from learning
High-stakes tests are piling pressure on to pupils and teachers and government policy risks entrenching an ‘exam factory’ culture, says teachers’ union
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November 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Teachers fear the introduction of a Year 8 reading test will worsen student engagement and narrow the curriculum, an NEU poll shows
Ahead of the government’s Autumn Budget on Wednesday, @michaelsgreen.bsky.social looks at what schools need from chancellor Rachel Reeves ⬇️
Budget 2025: What schools need from Rachel Reeves
With the chancellor due to deliver her Budget next week, Michael Green recommends four financial priorities that would not only give schools stability but also benefit the wider economy
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November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Ahead of the government’s Autumn Budget on Wednesday, @michaelsgreen.bsky.social looks at what schools need from chancellor Rachel Reeves ⬇️
🇺🇸 ‘Teachers chanting times tables to pop hits, confetti filling the air and pupils cheering as they raced to answer questions in relay teams’: one MAT leader explains what he learned from US schools’ approach to motivating pupils
What US schools taught us about motivating pupils
Visiting schools in Ohio where assessment is turned into a celebration got this MAT leader thinking about ways to use healthy competition to drive engagement and outcomes
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November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🇺🇸 ‘Teachers chanting times tables to pop hits, confetti filling the air and pupils cheering as they raced to answer questions in relay teams’: one MAT leader explains what he learned from US schools’ approach to motivating pupils
High-performing special schools should be supported to become centres of excellence for teaching autistic pupils, according to a House of Lords special inquiry
Make special schools autism centres of excellence, say lords
Mainstream schools need more help and stronger incentives to provide autistic students with the support they need, says House of Lords special inquiry
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November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
High-performing special schools should be supported to become centres of excellence for teaching autistic pupils, according to a House of Lords special inquiry
The DfE’s new AI-powered attendance targets for every school will have ‘very little’ impact on absence but are ‘another burden’ for staff, school leaders warn
AI targets won’t tackle attendance crisis, heads warn
In response to new AI-powered attendance targets for every school, leaders tell the DfE that there is no ‘quick solution’ to the pupil absence problem
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November 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The DfE’s new AI-powered attendance targets for every school will have ‘very little’ impact on absence but are ‘another burden’ for staff, school leaders warn
Schools shouldn't be forced to look for 'gaps in the hedges' to meet the needs of today's diverse learners, says head James Searjeant, who calls for changes to the assessment and accountability system to support inclusion
‘School autonomy shouldn’t mean having to find gaps in hedges’
If we want to be a truly inclusive education system, the assessment and accountability frameworks that penalise inclusion need to be changed, argues this headteacher
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November 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Schools shouldn't be forced to look for 'gaps in the hedges' to meet the needs of today's diverse learners, says head James Searjeant, who calls for changes to the assessment and accountability system to support inclusion
Smartphones are ‘asbestos’ for children and the government should force schools to be ‘phone-free’, says former schools minister Nick Gibb
Nick Gibb: Smartphones are 'asbestos' for children
Former schools minister also criticises the government for scrapping the EBacc performance measure, which he says will affect uptake of modern languages
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November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Smartphones are ‘asbestos’ for children and the government should force schools to be ‘phone-free’, says former schools minister Nick Gibb
The Covid inquiry finds that the government at the time failed to sufficiently consider the consequences of pandemic school closures on children’s education and physical and mental health
Government was not prepared for ‘enormous’ task of school closures
If restrictions had been put in place sooner, then lockdown could have been shorter - or not necessary at all, Covid inquiry report also finds
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November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Covid inquiry finds that the government at the time failed to sufficiently consider the consequences of pandemic school closures on children’s education and physical and mental health
The number of suspensions and exclusions has dropped year-on-year, new government figures show.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The number of suspensions and exclusions has dropped year-on-year, new government figures show.
🔗 Read the full analysis from @jabedahmed.bsky.social here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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Teachers receive 22 fewer weeks of full maternity pay than many other public sectors - including DfE officials.
It's a major factor cited by woman in their thirties, who are leaving the sector in droves, and is hugely in tension with the govt's retention ambitions.
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It's a major factor cited by woman in their thirties, who are leaving the sector in droves, and is hugely in tension with the govt's retention ambitions.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Why do teachers get such a bad deal on maternity pay?
With women making up the vast majority of the workforce, could better maternity leave pay help tackle the teacher retention crisis?
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November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Teachers receive 22 fewer weeks of full maternity pay than many other public sectors - including DfE officials.
It's a major factor cited by woman in their thirties, who are leaving the sector in droves, and is hugely in tension with the govt's retention ambitions.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
It's a major factor cited by woman in their thirties, who are leaving the sector in droves, and is hugely in tension with the govt's retention ambitions.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
School leaders have questioned whether resourced provision leads to a more inclusive system and warned of ‘exclusion in its worst sense’
SEND: Resource bases ‘can be exclusion in its worst sense’
Mainstream and AP leaders question the government’s focus on resourced provision and SEN units in its drive to create a more inclusive school system
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November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
School leaders have questioned whether resourced provision leads to a more inclusive system and warned of ‘exclusion in its worst sense’
Schools already have the ability to cut exam times by switching exam boards, says Ofqual chief Sir Ian Bauckham in response to the curriculum and assessment review
Ofqual chief: Schools can already cut exam times
Choosing between exam boards enables schools to reduce exam times to a degree 'not all that different' to that envisaged by the Francis review, says Sir Ian Bauckham
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November 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Schools already have the ability to cut exam times by switching exam boards, says Ofqual chief Sir Ian Bauckham in response to the curriculum and assessment review
Exclusive: The government is in danger of overlooking the importance of what is taught in special schools, leaders in the specialist sector warn in response to planned curriculum reforms
Special schools fear being an ‘afterthought’ on curriculum
In response to the curriculum review, leaders in the specialist sector urge the DfE to focus more on what is taught in special schools and how best practice can be shared
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November 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Exclusive: The government is in danger of overlooking the importance of what is taught in special schools, leaders in the specialist sector warn in response to planned curriculum reforms
Teachers receive far less maternity leave pay than many others in the public sector, including DfE officials. But just how bad is it, and is it likely to improve? @cerysturner.bsky.social explores
Why do teachers get such a bad deal on maternity pay?
With women making up the vast majority of the workforce, could better maternity leave pay help tackle the teacher retention crisis?
www.tes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Teachers receive far less maternity leave pay than many others in the public sector, including DfE officials. But just how bad is it, and is it likely to improve? @cerysturner.bsky.social explores
38% of secondary heads and 30% of primary leaders under 50 are leaving the role within five years of taking up the post, according to @naht.org.uk analysis
Many ‘overwhelmed’ heads leave role within five years
Some 30 per cent of primary heads and 38 per cent of secondary leaders under 50 are leaving their posts within five years, analysis by the NAHT shows
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November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
38% of secondary heads and 30% of primary leaders under 50 are leaving the role within five years of taking up the post, according to @naht.org.uk analysis
An international schools group explains how its workshops on self-leadership are helping students consider their post-school options
Uni, gap year or career? Helping students consider post-school plans
Leaders at International Schools Partnership explain how the group is working with the University of Toronto to help young people consider their options - and why it is bringing the course to Europe
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November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
An international schools group explains how its workshops on self-leadership are helping students consider their post-school options