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The schools watchdog is consulting on plans to give some schools subject to “short inspections” more than two years to prepare for a follow-up visit, and has abandoned plans for a maximum gap of 15 days. Ofsted has proposed changes to the way it converts short inspections for schools previously rated as ‘good’ into full […]

A higher proportion of pupils are being entered for at least one arts subject at state schools than at private schools, but the overall decline in popularity of arts subjects isn’t letting up, according to new research from the Education Policy Institute. On average, state secondary schools entered 51.3 per cent of pupils for at […]

The powerful House of Commons education committee has launched an inquiry into alternative provision. Robert Halfon, the chair of the committee, says MPs want to establish whether pupils in pupil referral units (PRUs) and other types of alternative provision are “receiving the best possible support”. It is the first schools-related inquiry launched by the new […]

SATs tests for 7-year-olds are to be scrapped, but not for at least six years, and it all hinges on controversial new baseline tests for reception children. Justine Greening has this week confirmed plans to make key stage 1 SATs non-compulsory by 2023 and instead introduce a new baseline test for reception children. Greening said […]

Key stage 1 SATs will be scrapped from 2023, Justine Greening has confirmed. In her response to the government’s consultation on primary testing, the education secretary said she would proceed with proposals to make the tests sat by 7-year-olds non-statutory for schools. The proposal was first outlined in March, when Greening announced she was setting […]

The government’s long-awaited national funding formula will include a minimum per-pupil funding amount for both primary and secondary schools, Justine Greening has announced today. The education secretary says primary schools will get at least £3,500 for every pupil on their roll from 2019-20, an extension of the £4,800 per-pupil funding guarantee for secondary schools that […]

Two new directors have been appointed at the Durand Academy Trust following the resignation of controversial former headteacher Sir Greg Martin. Company records show Rebecca Pickard, the school’s acting headteacher, and Harriet Russell, a staff governor at the school, joined the trust board earlier this month. Pickard is a former assistant headteacher at Durand, and […]