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Experienced teachers are more likely to grace the classrooms of schools with advantaged pupils, leaving more deprived schools with less qualified staff, new research has revealed. A University of Cambridge study published today found teachers in the top fifth of advantaged schools – sorted by free school meal data – had an average of nearly […]

Schools are being urged to pledge to eradicate gender bias and support more women into headship – including by publishing salary differences. The Leading Women’s Alliance has published details of its Leading Women to Headship Strategic Plan today – to coincide with International Women’s Day. It was drawn up at the group’s January summit, attended […]

An academy trust with a UTC whose former principal earnt £1,000-per pupil has been handed a financial notice to improve. The Bright Futures Educational Trust, which runs nine schools in the North West of England, has been told it must improve its “weak financial position and financial management” or face closure. The trust was issued […]

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has launched its annual conference today with a survey revealing “the damage caused by funding cuts”. One in four of the school leaders who responded to the survey said they have made redundancies because of financial pressures. Nearly two thirds of the 900 respondents also said they have […]

Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has called for urgent action to plug the flood of teachers leaving the UK to teach abroad – fuelled by a “worldwide boom in international schools”. A Schools Week investigation in September revealed that around 100,000 full-time teaching staff from Britain left to teach abroad in 2014-15. It was […]

An academy chain will pull out of three schools after failing to drive “rapid enough” improvement – allowing trusts more local to the schools to take over. The CfBT Schools Trust (CST) will relinquish control of Danum Academy, in Doncaster, Ely College, Cambridgeshire, and Sir John Gleed School, Lincolnshire – two of which are in […]

Headteachers in a city criticised by Ofsted for failing pupils have secured £1 million of funding to help attract trainee teachers to their classrooms by paying off their student loans. A new initiative will launch tomorrow led by Stoke headteachers and the city’s MP, Tristram Hunt, to improve maths teaching. The Maths Excellence Partnership has […]

Teachers and moderators are up in arms over changes to primary writing assessments that have been labelled as “going back to the 19th century”. Moderators were told at a briefing run by the Standards Testing Agency this month that the use of an “exclamation sentence” must start with either a “how” or “what” and must […]