Monday
Most primary teachers would not consider secondary
The perceived barriers to teachers making the move from primary to secondary, including an ‘us and them’ mentality, have been revealed by DfE research
Widening access to private schools harder due to ‘challenges’ in sector
HMC chair comments come as the government plans to remove the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools from January
Ofqual warns schools over coursework cyberattack risk
The warning comes as a poll reveals more than four in 10 teachers say their school or college experienced a cyber incident during the last academic year
Friday
Heads’ and teachers’ wellbeing in ‘profound crisis’
New data on teacher and headteacher wellbeing, workload, supply teaching and teaching assistants was published today. Here’s what you need to know
Delay private school fee VAT charge or lose teachers ‘permanently’
Headteachers’ and teachers’ leaders have urged ministers to delay implementation of the government’s school fee levy to next September, and to carry out an impact assessment
Tuesday
Directed hours rule ‘archaic’, says MAT leader
Becks Boomer-Clark, CEO of Lift Schools, said the teaching profession must ‘have a much more mature, sophisticated and flexible understanding of time’
‘Teaching has become a precarious job’
Pressure is building on the Scottish government to address the ‘huge backlog’ of teachers who cannot find secure jobs
Why is France so good at keeping its teachers?
New data shows that France has a much higher teacher retention rate than England. Ellen Peirson-Hagger examines what we could learn from colleagues across the Channel
Monday
Call for Swinney to intervene over council education cuts
EIS writes to first minister amid dismay over ‘hugely damaging’ plans in Glasgow and Falkirk to cut teaching jobs and learning hours
We need more teachers with SEND, says schools minister
Speaking at the Labour Party conference, Catherine McKinnell said the government is looking at how to make teaching more inclusive
Labour urged to ‘bring forward measures’ to tackle teacher supply
The recruitment of postgraduate secondary teacher trainees is 37 per cent below target, analysis of DfE figures shows
