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Mar- 2025 -31 March
Adolescence to be shown for free in UK schools
The government has announced that from 1 April 2025 secondary schools in the UK will be able to stream all four episodes of the hit Netflix show Adolescence, in a bid to help curb the rising rate of violent crime against young women in the UK. Netflix has made the…
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31 March
School leaders oppose ‘inappropriate’ peerage for ex-Ofsted boss
School leaders have come together to “vehemently” oppose a proposed peerage for the former chief inspector of Ofsted, calling the move “inappropriate and insensitive” amid ongoing criticism of Ofsted’s framework under their tenure. Headrest and the Headteachers’ Roundtable have jointly written to the Appointments Commission opposing the Conservative Party recommendation that…
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31 March
Stoke-on-Trent council fills secondary school places despite shortages
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has ensured that every child that is due to move from primary to secondary school this September, and is requesting a place in a city school, has been offered one – despite continued pressures on demand. A total of 3,161 secondary school places have been allocated for…
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31 March
NITC rejects 5.5% teachers’ pay offer
The Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC) has rejected a 5.5% teachers’ pay offer for a second time. The latest offer included a 5.5% cost of living award for all teachers from 1 September 2024, a 5.5% increase on Teaching and Special Needs allowances, a commitment to jointly deliver over 25…
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28 March
T-level qualifications still less popular than BTECs, NAO finds
The National Audit office has suggested that vocational qualifications such as BTECs remain more popular than T Levels for students and should be retained until T Levels can be fully evaluated. The Department for Education (DfE) launched T Levels following recommendations from the 2016 Sainsbury Review, which outlined the need…
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28 March
YouGov finds ‘high parent support’ for Ofsted report card proposals
A YouGov survey has found the majority of parents support Ofsted’s report card proposals, with 67% saying they prefer Ofsted’s proposed new report cards to current inspection reports. Some 86% of parents said it was easy to understand the information on the report cards and 84% found the use of colour…
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28 March
Humanists UK backs campaign to stop closure of non-faith school
Humanists UK is supporting a campaign that aims to stop Southwark Council from closing the only non-faith primary school in its area, Charlotte Sharman Primary School. The news comes less than a year on from the successful campaign that saved the non-faith primary school from being merged into a Church…
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28 March
Gov invests £740m to expand school places for children with SEND
The government has announced that 10,000 new school places will be funded for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), delivering on Plan for Change, through a £740m investment. The investment will be used by the government to deliver adaptations, expand specialist units in mainstream as well as create…
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27 March
Welsh language skills improving in further education but impact ‘inconsistent’
Training schemes to enhance Welsh language skills in further education and apprenticeships are making a positive impact, but with inconsistencies in their long-term effectiveness, according to Estyn.The education and training inspectorate for Wales reported on the ‘Increasing the use of the Welsh language in post-16 sectors’, which evaluates training programmes…
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27 March
Prioritise individualised approaches to tackle pupil absences, NFER says
Schools should prioritise supportive, individualised approaches to tackling pupil absence while recognising that sanctions still have a role to play, new research from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has found. The study, Voices from the Classroom – Understanding how secondary schools support pupils returning from absence, is based…
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