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💥A bumper edition on academy pay today: 1: We reveal the pay rises handed to CEOs of the biggest MATs, inc one with a £40k payrise whose trust grew by one school. Analysis by @jasminenorden.bsky.social and @johngroberts.bsky.social for @tesmagazine.bsky.social

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An analysis of what the country's largest MATs pay their CEOs - based on the latest published accounts. @tesmagazine.bsky.social story by @jasminenorden.bsky.social and myself. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Sector leaders are calling for the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document to include a new national framework for CEO salaries as a Tes analysis highlights the narrow gap in leaders' pay between some trusts of vastly different sizes. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Dr Cat Scutt spoke to TES about the findings of our Rethinking Curriculum project, sharing that "sustainability and climate education came out as one of primary schools’ top five priorities for curriculum development". Read more: www.tes.com/magazine... #ClimateEducation

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Here is my write up of the latest Education Select Committee hearing into the SEND crisis for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Exclusive: the advisors to the DfE's edtech evidence board have been appointed. They will review the criteria used to assess edtech products as part of the government's wider measures on AI and edtech use in schools. Full list of members below 👇 www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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An alternative consultation on the future of Ofsted inspections has been launched to ask if the watchdog’s plans for school report cards, its evaluation areas and the five point grading scale it proposes are fit for purpose. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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The next session of the Education Select Committee's inquiry into Solving the SEND Crisis is getting underway shortly. I will be posting updates here for @tesmagazine.bsky.social this morning.

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Charity Parentkind has found almost a third of parents said their child had refused to go to school more than once in the last year. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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The @cstvoice.bsky.social calls for specialist expertise from across the school system to be mobilised to “ensure learning and knowledge building between specialist and mainstream settings.” www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Exclusive: @nasuwt-official.bsky.social has called for the creation of a national security forum to help schools deal with 'the rising threat of violence'

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Ofsted's national director for education Lee Owston has written for @tesmagazine.bsky.social on the inspectorate's plans for its new framework. On its new toolkits he says: "This isn’t about adding more requirements; it’s about being more transparent." www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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A new @cfyounglives.bsky.social report has called for the government to introduce an ‘enrichment guarantee’ of at least 80 hours of extracurricular activities a year to tackle pupil absence. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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🔍 'We’re not kidding ourselves; we know inspection may never be enjoyable…But that doesn’t mean we can’t do more to lessen the strain.' Ofsted’s Lee Owston writes for Tes to outline the thinking behind the new inspection proposals

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Headteachers' leaders @naht.org.uk have defended producing a template response to help members oppose Ofsted's new inspections. Some pretty strong worded statements in this ace piece by @cerysturner.bsky.social 1/3 www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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💡𝗠𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 Verbal skills at age 5 are associated with lifelong improved outcomes in education and health Research evidence suggests effective approaches to use, but there are challenges too www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

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Exam board OCR says a new short-course maths GCSE should be introduced, warning that the current GCSE resit policy is in need of “urgent reform”. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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A group of charities has urged the government to tackle the root causes of the school attendance “crisis” in the North of England, with analysis showing that this part of the country is worse affected by unauthorised absence. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Thanks to @tesmagazine.bsky.social for covering our reflections and concerns.

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Exclusive: Large trusts are investing surplus cash and making big returns to reinvest into pupil outcomes: and one trust leader has said there should be 'no excuse' for others not doing the same. @jasminenorden.bsky.social with the analysis for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Urgency is critical, was the key message from the DfE as it set out its plans for RISE teams this week. They are now working with 32 "stuck schools" where improvement need is most urgent and 50 more advisers are set to start in April Full story here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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When asked why summer holidays in England were so short on an @lbc.co.uk radio phone in Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver responded by saying the question should rather be are term times long enough? tes.com/magazine/new...

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Ofqual has committed to take action if it finds that the higher proportion of private school students getting extra time in exams is down to an unfairness in the system. @tesmagazine.bsky.social exclusive by @jasminenorden.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Oak National Academy’s status as a government arm’s-length body is causing “significant market damage”, the chancellor has been warned in a letter from the Publishers Association seen by @tesmagazine.bsky.social. Exclusive by @cerysturner.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Almost all teachers have children with food allergies in their schools, yet over two-thirds have no allergy awareness training, according to a poll by @nasuwt-official.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new....

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"Ofsted has shown an institutional disinterest in why some schools welcome the most vulnerable children or children with SEND, while others push them away". Strong criticism of Ofsted on inclusion from @annelongfield.bsky.social and @jonnyuttley.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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Most primary teachers want the minimum age requirements increased for popular social media and communication platforms, polling suggests. @tesmagazine.bsky.social exclusive by @cerysturner.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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"Govt proposals for deciding when to academise 'stuck schools' are unfair & 'incredibly high stakes', heads' leaders have warned. @ascl-uk.bsky.social & @naht.org.uk say the DfE appears to have created an intervention category that is harder to get out of than it is to fall into." 1/2

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