'As pupils arrive in year 7, let’s stop pretending SATs are simply a measure of primary schools. 'They shape how children are seen from day one, which is why we should pay just as much attention to what happens in October as to the scores published in July' schoolsweek.co.uk/we-say-sats-...

SATs shape pupils' experience of education for years to come

The test was designed to measure the school. Somewhere along the way, we started using it to measure the child

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ICYMI: Ministers have no plans to reopen the previous government’s curriculum and assessment review as part of education reforms announced by the prime minister, Schools Week understands schoolsweek.co.uk/government-d...

Burnham government won't reopen curriculum review

Education secretary Lucy Powell also understood to be committed to existing reform timetable

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'If contextual benchmarking is to fulfil its promise, it must help inspectors better understand context without lowering ambitions for children or expectations of what schools can help them achieve,' writes Clair Freeman schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-must-...

Ofsted must remember that even similar schools are different

Contextual benchmarking must help inspectors understand context without lowering ambitions

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Ministers have no plans to reopen the previous government’s curriculum and assessment review as part of education reforms announced by the prime minister, Schools Week understands schoolsweek.co.uk/government-d...

Burnham government won't reopen curriculum review

Education secretary Lucy Powell also understood to be committed to existing reform timetable

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Ministers have no plans to reopen the previous government’s curriculum and assessment review as part of education reforms announced by the prime minister, Schools Week understands schoolsweek.co.uk/government-d...

Burnham government won't reopen curriculum review

Education secretary Lucy Powell also understood to be committed to existing reform timetable

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'Success absolutely cannot mean a reform that works well in Manchester, a number of core cities and London – and patchily everywhere else. Existing divides in both engagement and outcomes could even be widened, not closed' schoolsweek.co.uk/dont-ignore-...

Don't ignore local context in rush to nationalise the MBacc

Success absolutely cannot mean a reform that works well in core cities and patchily everywhere else

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❗️Exclusive: Radical plans for ministers to scrape real-time data from schools to shape policy moves are in danger of being 'screwed up' by tight deadlines and security gaffes, experts have warned schoolsweek.co.uk/security-woe...

Security woes risk Labour's huge data push, ministers told

Little-known 'data spine' project will see real-time information fed straight to government

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A former academy trust boss has been appointed to run a major Abu Dhabi-owned private special school company https://schoolsweek.co.uk/drinkall-former-trust-boss-takes-top-job-at-abu-dhabi-owned-send-school-firm/

Ex-MAT boss made CEO of Abu Dhabi-owned SEND school firm

Julian Drinkall, who left GLF Schools suddenly last year, to lead Witherslack Group

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Ministers plan to introduce new guidance on how education technology companies can use children’s data, as audits found many providers could not prove their approach was lawful or authorised by schools https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ed-tech-companies-used-pupil-data-without-telling-schools-ico/

ICYMI: Changes to school inspections to better recognise preparation of children for work will be made through Ofsted’s 'annual update process', the watchdog has said schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-would...

Ofsted would enact Burnham plan via annual 'update process'

It suggests proposals for greater parity of esteem would not require a full framework re-write

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Experts warn Andy Burnham’s government must have a teacher supply strategy and plans to resource schools to deliver his plan for 'technical pathways' from age 14 schoolsweek.co.uk/can-schools-...

Can schools get the staff for Burnham's technical pathways?

Establishing workforce and facilities will take 'time and significant investment', experts warn

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Ministers plan to introduce new guidance on how education technology companies can use children’s data, as audits found many providers could not prove their approach was lawful or authorised by schools https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ed-tech-companies-used-pupil-data-without-telling-schools-ico/

Changes to school inspections to better recognise preparation of children for work will be made through Ofsted’s 'annual update process', the watchdog has said schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-would...

Ofsted would enact Burnham plan via annual 'update process'

It suggests proposals for greater parity of esteem would not require a full framework re-write

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New recruits to the Department for Education cannot work from two of its regional offices due to limited desk space https://schoolsweek.co.uk/capacity-issues-cause-recruitment-freeze-at-two-dfe-offices/

Exclusive: Ministers are looking to private sponsors to make it easier for schools to buy life-saving 'spare' allergy pens, as required under new landmark guidance https://schoolsweek.co.uk/allergy-pens-dfe-looks-at-sponsorship-route-to-help-schools/

Exclusive: The Conservatives' wraparound childcare programme underspent by almost a fifth, with affordability challenges and a lack of demand from parents hitting school take-up. schoolsweek.co.uk/conservative...

Conservatives' wraparound childcare scheme underspent by a fifth

The Conservatives’ wraparound scheme was hit with affordability challenges and a lack of demand from parents

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Ministers plan to introduce new guidance on how education technology companies can use children’s data, as audits found many providers could not prove their approach was lawful or authorised by schools schoolsweek.co.uk/ed-tech-comp...

Ed tech companies used pupil data without telling schools

Audits found nearly three quarters of providers could not prove their additional use of data was fair

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Andy Burnham’s government must have a teacher supply strategy and plans to resource schools to deliver his plan for 'technical pathways' from age 14, experts have warned https://schoolsweek.co.uk/can-schools-get-the-staff-for-burnhams-technical-pathways/

📍 Exclusive: Six councils have been selected by ministers to trial how best to use empty spaces in schools amid the falling rolls crisis Full story 🔽 schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-the...

Revealed: The councils leading ministers' spare space pilot

One of the chosen town halls reveals 'ambition' to open up to 40 SEND hubs a year in empty classrooms

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Exclusive: Radical plans for ministers to scrape real-time data from schools to shape policy moves are in danger of being 'screwed up' by tight deadlines and security gaffes, experts have warned schoolsweek.co.uk/security-woe...

Security woes risk Labour's huge data push, ministers told

Little-known 'data spine' project will see real-time information fed straight to government

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Breaking: Mayors will be handed control of sixth form funding in a radical break from England’s Whitehall-run post-16 education system schoolsweek.co.uk/mayors-to-ta...

Mayors to take control of sixth form funding

School sixth forms and colleges in scope, with a timetable due at the autumn budget

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Labour’s flagship RISE school improvement drive has been criticised by some leaders for its 'rushed' deadlines and for overwhelming small primaries schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-leaders...

RISE: Leaders criticise 'low' funding and 'rushed' deadlines

But second evaluation report finds the school improvement programme is 'well-placed' to deliver change

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'Schools cannot close the white working-class achievement gap alone. It will take a collective effort from government, education, employers and communities' schoolsweek.co.uk/a-young-pers...

Children's futures should not depend on where they grow up

Schools cannot close the white working-class achievement gap on their own – it will take a combined effort

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📉 A seven-figure cash pot used to help schools switch between academy trusts has shrunk to a 12-year low Full story 🔽 schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-trus...

Academy trust transfer grants slashed to 12-year low

Funds supporting schools to move academy chains cut by over 70% amid trust cash squeeze

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The proportion of newly qualified teachers going on to work in England’s state schools has fallen to a record low, new data suggests https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-reports-drop-in-newly-qualified-teachers-working-in-state-school-system/

A new 'similar schools' model to be used by Ofsted from September won’t consider a setting’s geographic location, leading to concerns it won’t adequately consider context https://schoolsweek.co.uk/similar-schools-concern-as-location-not-a-factor-in-new-ofsted-model/

The names and contact details of school leaders are among more than half a million records stolen by hackers in a cyber attack on the Department for Education schoolsweek.co.uk/hackers-stea...

Hackers steal headteachers' data in DfE cyber attack

DfE doesn't say whether school leaders affected by the breach have been informed

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A new 'similar schools' model to be used by Ofsted from September won’t consider a setting’s geographic location, leading to concerns it won’t adequately consider context https://schoolsweek.co.uk/similar-schools-concern-as-location-not-a-factor-in-new-ofsted-model/

'The way we prioritise looked-after and previously looked-after children today will determine whether future data finally tells a different story – one of belonging, aspiration and genuine opportunity' schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-and-...

Schools must know every looked-after child’s story

Children in care come to school carrying layers of vulnerability and complexity that too often remain unseen

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