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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4h

✈️ Exclusive: Two thirds of schools bidding for cash to send children on life-changing trips overseas were snubbed, sparking fears poorer youngsters are being sidelined from the Turing Scheme
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'Alarm' as two-thirds of schools' Turing Scheme bids snubbed

Ministers told to better support schools through foreign trips scheme as acceptance rate drops from 90% to 30%

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4h

🚧 'I talk to MAT CEOs, and what I hear a lot is ‘we might think about rebelling - do Progress 5 and put [other] qualifications back in'

@asdaneducation.bsky.social CEO, Melissa Farnham reveals some top-level, back-room dissatisfaction

We’ve made education comorbid. We’re killing it

JL Dutaut speaks with former looked-after child and current ASDAN CEO, Melissa Farnham about breaking down barriers to opportunity

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 13h

The government has swung the axe on teacher training incentives - including cutting funding for shortage subjects such as maths and foreign languages

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Teacher training bursaries cut after recruitment pick-up

Major cuts have been made to teacher training incentives - including for shortage subjects such as maths and fore

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservatives would introduce a legal 'presumption' that pupils who bring knives to school or assault their classmates or staff be permanently excluded, the shadow education secretary has said

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Conservatives want exclusion presumption for violent pupils

Shadow education secretary also sets out plans to make alternative provision 'independent' of councils

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

New analysis by NFER estimates cuts the DfE is making to teacher training incentives could lead to 2,400 fewer trainees next year

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Teacher training bursaries cut after recruitment pick-up

Major cuts have been made to teacher training incentives - including for shortage subjects such as maths and fore

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

The government has swung the axe on teacher training incentives – including cutting funding for shortage subjects such as maths and foreign languages

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

'If the government is serious about curriculum...it would not be doing what it’s doing, to strip down inspection and take out everything that amounts to a serious review of what’s taught and how it’s taught'

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'No real subject inspection': Spielman slams Ofsted reforms

Report cards 'take out everything that amounts to a serious review of what's taught and how it's taught'

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

A trust CEO has told the Covid inquiry the former education secretary said it was 'too late to do anything' after he raised grave concerns over plans to award grades during the first year of Covid based on an algorithm
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Covid Inquiry: 'Too late' to act on exam concerns - minister

Jon Coles, CEO of United Learning Trust, told the Covid Inquiry he was told by Gavin Williamson it was 'too late to do anything' on how grades would be awarded.

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

🤖 Exclusive: Standardisation tests for SATs moderators will include questions written by artificial intelligence under a new government trial to cut costs and school workload

AI questions to be trialled in SATs moderator tests

Government launches trial in bid to cut costs and school workload, amid push to 'harness the power of AI'

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Ofsted reforms will 'strip down inspection' and 'take out everything that amounts to a serious review of what’s taught and how it’s taught', a former chief inspector has warned

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'No real subject inspection': Spielman slams Ofsted reforms

Report cards 'take out everything that amounts to a serious review of what's taught and how it's taught'

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

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John Dickens @johndickenssw.bsky.social · 2d

Big scoop in the policy world:

The founder of Oak National Academy @matthewhood.bsky.social will lead a new 'delivery unit' for the Department of Health and Social Care tasked with cutting hospital wait times and improving access to GPs

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Matt Hood to lead new health reforms ‘delivery unit’

Oak National Academy founder Matt Hood to run new team under health secretary Wes Streeting to cut hospital waiting times and improve GP access

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: Standardisation tests for SATs moderators will include questions written by artificial intelligence under a new government trial to cut costs and school workload
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AI questions to be trialled in SATs moderator tests

Government launches trial in bid to cut costs and school workload, amid push to 'harness the power of AI'

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

All primary teachers will be offered free professional development on careers education after a government-backed trial found pupils with trained-up teachers “broadened” their horizons and were less likely to feel held back by gender stereotypes

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Pupils' horizons 'broadened' after careers training pilot

CPD offered to all primary teachers after report finds children less held back by gender stereotypes

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

🏘️ 'At a time when policymakers are looking for solutions to a rising tide of complaints, the key is surely to humanise the home/school relationship'

@maritimeacademytrust.org COO, Susan Matheson

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: The government will publish 'best practice' guidance to help mainstream schools set up and run SEN and pupil support units as part of their inclusion push

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

As the government announced 2,000 more free breakfast clubs will be launched from April, a DfE survey has revealed three-quarters of primary leaders fear they are 'not financially viable in their school'

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

💸 An academy trust broke rules after paying nearly £5,000 in 'consultancy services' to the mother of its CEO, a government investigation has found

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Trust broke rules over payments to CEO's mum

Government probe finds trust breached rules over consultancy payments and £24k on training courses

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

A government survey has revealed three-quarters of primary leaders fear free breakfast clubs are 'not financially viable' in their school – just as it announced 2,000 more will be launched from April

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

Expecting schools to provide more support to help pupils to secure a post-16 destination – potentially policed by Ofsted – 'looks untenable' without 'sustained investment', government has been warned

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

A government survey has revealed three-quarters of primary leaders fear free breakfast clubs are 'not financially viable in their school' – just as it announced 2,000 more will be launched from April

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 3d

📖 'Early disengagement comes down to one key factor: one in four Year 7 pupils can’t read well enough to access the curriculum'

@romanyheartford.bsky.social

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4d

Expecting schools to provide more support to help pupils to secure a post-16 destination 'looks untenable' without 'sustained investment', the government has been warned

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4d

💸 An academy trust broke rules after paying nearly £5,000 in 'consultancy services' to the mother of its CEO, government has found

Trust broke rules over payments to CEO's mum

Government probe finds trust breached rules over consultancy payments and £24k on training courses

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4d

The government lacked 'leadership and determination' to get children back to school as lockdowns were lifted, Baroness Anne Longfield, the former children’s commissioner, has told the Covid inquiry

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