by Chris Rogers | 13 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services, Politics
The BBC has reported that Labour is considering announcing a plan for teachers to be licensed every few years in order to work in England’s schools (Olly from PSI: the evasive language suggests this is very much in testing the water territory). Shadow...
by Chris Rogers | 9 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Schools in England which opted to become academies have improved more quickly than those staying as local authority schools, according to a Department for Education (DfE) analysis of Ofsted inspections. Convertor academies account for more than two-thirds of the 3,613...
by Chris Rogers | 7 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services, Welfare
Like it or not, cuts are the order of the day and whoever forms the next Government the overwhelming likelihood is that they are here to stay. Chancellor George Osborne only this morning announced that £25 billion more are on their way. This piece will refrain from...
by Chris Rogers | 7 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The charity Impetus-PEF has proposed that the pupil premium should be allocated to schools on a payment-by-results basis. It says that schools should only receive payments if they can demonstrate improvements in exam results and that pupils go on to get a job,...
by Chris Rogers | 7 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The OCR exam board is leading a project to help professionalise the system of marking in GCSEs and A-levels, The Telegraph reports. Exam marking is to be overhauled under reforms designed to eradicate the “systematic acceptance of errors” in GCSEs and...
