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Tuesday
25th Jun 2024
Decision on future of Scottish exams delayed until new school year
Publication of long-awaited Hayward review response – as well as behaviour action plan and mobile phone guidance – put on hold, as education secretary cites pre-election rules
Councils consider learning hours as leverage in teacher numbers dispute
Scottish councils could offer to protect the time children spend in class in exchange for relaxing the rules on teacher numbers – but is the government interested in compromise?
Unions: Scottish teachers will ‘yet again, not receive pay uplift on time’
Unions blame ‘delay and prevarication’ of councils and government – and say the new settlement date of 1 August will not be met
Monday
24th Jun 2024
7 reasons school governing boards struggle
The National Governance Association analysed hundreds of DfE-commissioned reviews: these are the main findings
Main parties ‘silent’ on urgent school funding problems
School finance leaders and trust governors call for the main political parties to set out how they would tackle the ‘most significant’ issue that schools are facing
Sir Kevan Collins to advise on schools if Labour wins election
Sir Kevan was the government’s education recovery commissioner until quitting over a lack of funding for his catch-up package
Poorer high-ability pupils in primary miss top GCSE grades
Disadvantaged, high-achieving 5-year-olds keep pace with their affluent peers in primary – but an attainment gap opens up in early secondary, research shows
Friday
21st Jun 2024
The Tes Schools Awards 2024 winners revealed
The Tes Schools Awards celebrated the fantastic achievements of the school sector and teaching profession this year, which included a lifetime achievement award for executive headteacher John Morris OBE
Sir Jon Coles: Government needs ‘complete reset’ with schools
Leader of the biggest MAT wants higher expectations of trusts, new school improvement structures and the scrapping of DfE ‘micro-interventions’ like the times tables check
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Trust capacity grants fall £33m short of bids
Leaders say they have to ‘significantly scale back’ growth plans due to widening shortfalls in capacity funding allocations as revealed by Tes
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