Education news, articles and events of the week: archive
24 January
AI revolution
AI ‘biggest thing to hit education in 100 years’, historian says
Phillipson’s AI ‘revolution’: What schools need to know
Mandatory assistive tech training for all new teachers from 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Labour’s school reforms ‘setting back a generation’ of children and erasing gains made over 20 years warns ex-education secretary Michael Gove
Britain’s strictest headteacher says Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson is showing ‘her Marxist outlook in every decision she’s making’
Where is Starmer’s school improvement ‘vision’?
Catherine McKinnell: Why we propose to amend the schools bill
Headteachers voice support for ‘imperfect’ schools bill
Kemi Badenoch warns Labour’s curbs on academy schools is ‘a tragedy in the making’
Government’s education reforms could be ‘significant backward step’ for pupils
Government will amend schools bill over academy teacher pay
SEND
DfE names 19 inclusion advisers
Gibb: ‘We have let down thousands of SEND children’
‘Umbrella’ SEND label is ‘misleading’, says inclusion tsar
Mental health
‘Significant rise’ in children admitted to acute wards for mental health issues
Prevent
School Prevent referrals rise – but fewer get support
Accountability
Ofsted head: Inspectors did nothing wrong in Ruth Perry suicide case
Could this be the model for MAT inspection?
Measure pupil wellbeing, DfE told
Exams
End the Ed Psych swizz and let kids have all the exam time they need
Curriculum
Schools teaching English and maths for 12 hours a week, leaving 8.5 hours for everything else
School ‘choice’
More than one in four parents admit to ‘lying’ and using underhand tactics to get their children into their preferred school, poll reveals
Pupil absence
Higher fines fail to stem high pupil absence rates
Breakfast clubs won’t improve attendance, say most heads
Thought-leadership
Have we got the right people in charge of education reviews?
Why the ‘human capital theory’ era of education is over
Children
Revealed: The favourite slang word of UK children – and it may leave many parents baffled
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13-17 January
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Phillipson: ‘Floor but no ceiling’ on teacher pay
Amend schools bill to guarantee no ceiling on pay, Phillipson told
Children’s wellbeing and schools bill: Committee calls for evidence
Labour policy
Phillipson’s first education committee: 8 things we learned
The key figures behind Bridget Phillipson’s education plans
Labour is treating the white working class with contempt
Retention and recruitment
I’m still unqualified after ten years. Here’s why
‘I earn a fraction of my headteacher’s salary but I don’t miss the 11-hour days and bureaucracy’
CPD
Labour cost-cutting spree now hits STEM
The 5 key priorities for the NPQ and ECF reviews
This year is make or break for the CPD golden thread
SEND
Revealed: Ministers’ ‘staggering’ absence from SEND schools
‘No urgency’ in DfE to tackle SEND ‘emergency’, MPs warn
Ofsted to meet parents of Send children to understand why they are not in school
MPs say fix Send system or face ‘lost generation’
Can 2025 bring a radical rethink of how we consider SEND?
What do school leaders think will solve the SEND crisis?
OfstedThe Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills – a non-ministerial department responsible for inspecting and regulating services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills
Heads urge Ofsted to delay new inspections until 2026
Lack of trust in Ofsted ‘almost irreversible’
Ofsted system glitch wiped evidence during almost 200 inspections
Concern as Ofsted fails to name schools trialling report cards
Behaviour
£10m behaviour hubs to end – but what next?
Disadvantage
Disadvantage gap: 9 things DfE told MPs
AI
Government invests £1m in AI tools to support teacher feedback and marking
AI skills: Building a workforce for the future
People
Baroness Anne Longfield: ‘I felt a responsibility to be brave’
Sir Kevan Collins to lead DfE board
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10 January
Bills
Top minister tells Tories ‘put up or shut up’ ahead of grooming gang vote
Schools bill ‘won’t cut pay’, but will restore academies’ ‘core purpose’
Labour’s ‘act of vandalism’ bill risks pay cuts for 20k teachers, claim Tories
Bid to halt safeguarding bill sickening, says Phillipson
Schools bill is ‘educational vandalism’, say Tories
‘Labour has no clear vision for improving education’
Failure to report child sex abuse to be made a crime
Curriculum
Labour scraps computing hubs, with languages scheme scaled back
‘Less vital’ curriculum areas to be ‘combed back’, says Francis
Only 1 in 4 young adults got financial education at school, study shows
Music education
Banging the drum for music education: the UK school run with an orchestra
Skills and qualifications
Warning of ‘skills chasm’ amid huge UK regional divide in qualifications
Accountability & Ofsted
Tell schools how they’re being judged on progress, DfE warned
Martyn Oliver on Ofsted reform: 8 things we learned
Poverty
UK charity steps up campaign against child hygiene poverty
Covid
Children ‘dropped down the agenda’ during pandemic
Mental Health
Child mental health crisis: Better resilience is the solution, say experts
Absence
Small drop in absence ‘but still a long way to go’
Safeguarding
‘An invidious position’: the safeguarding disconnect affecting children and teachers
Funding
Rising SEND costs will ‘wipe out’ school savings, IFS warns
‘We can’t go on like this’: Costs will outstrip school funding rises (again), says IFS
Final round of trust growth funding falls £18m short of requests
School buildings
Ninety per cent of schools hit by crumbling concrete scandal have not had RAAC removed
Pay
NEU to launch indicative ballot over 2.8% pay rise recommendation
Sixth form college teachers to stage three more days of strikes in pay dispute
Early years
Therapy dogs
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