The Department for Education should ensure support staff pay rises are factored in and funded in school budgets, according to MPs⬇️

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Exclusive: Ofsted has 'scrapped' its curriculum unit and 'sidelined' subject leads in a move that will surely be seen as clear sign of an overhaul of the Spielman era shift away from results focus - which new chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver prev criticised
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Investigation - there has been a 42% increase in trusts reserves falling to 5% or below of their income, figures complied by Education Policy Institute have shown. Another stark picture of how stretched schools are on current funding tes.com/magazine/news/…

Today’s ⁦⁦Tes⁩ MAT Tracker regional update covers all the latest academy sector moves, inc:
🏫 13 academy orders
🏫 55 schools converting to become academies
🏫 2 trust mergers
🏫 5 rebrokerings
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Only 1 in 10 teachers and leaders report that their schools are not yet complying with the government’s target for all schools to be running a 32.5-hour minimum week, a poll Teacher Tapp has found

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EXC from Cerys Turner
Ofsted’s subject-focused curriculum unit has been “completely scrapped” and its subject leads are now mostly working on routine inspection, according to sources at the schools watchdog

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The Tes team is back with another MAT tracker update for the sector

Catch up on the key decisions being made in the academies sector in March⬇️

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There has been a 42% jump in the number of MATs with reserves at levels seen as suggestive of “financial vulnerability” Tes can reveal

Pepe Di’Iasio says the trend shows how schools are being forced to “mitigate the impact of government underfunding”

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Govt data published today shows that in autumn term 2023 overall absence was improving- a positive!

However, it is worth noting that severe absence (50%+) is continuing to climb

Data shows 142.5k pupils missed half of school/more in autumn term, up from 125k the previous year

The government should set a goal to reduce curriculum content by 10% across all key stages, according to think tank report
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Starmer says this morning on PM's plans for Maths to 18: 'we haven't got enough maths teachers in our secondary schools for those up to 16'

'We haven't got enough maths teachers and other key teachers.'

Starmer describes this as 'shocking'

“The eroding of the arts across the curriculum over a number of years has now gone far beyond crisis point: we are facing an arts apocalypse”: well said by all these organisations: tes.com/magazine/news/…

EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Schools minister refuses to guarantee teacher workforce strategy update before next General Election in exc interview with Tes

Leaders call it “deeply disappointing” and call for more urgency

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