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Don’t focus on tests, do include high quality photos – says new textbook guidelines

New guidelines for what makes good textbooks include using high quality colour photographs in geography and not preparing pupils just to pass tests in maths. Publishers, subject experts, textbook authors and teachers have been working on the Quality Guidelines for 12 months. Launched by the Publishers Association (PA) and the British Education Suppliers Association (BESA), […]

Housing minister: We will ensure government’s 500 new free schools are delivered on time

The housing minister has said he is committed to ensuring new free schools get planning permission amid the government’s “ambitious” plans to deliver another 500 schools by 2020. Brandon Lewis MP, housing and planning minister, said his department has a “clear expectation” all parties involved in the planning system should “plan positively to support the […]

Full STEAM ahead to give art equal footing with science and maths

With slightly ruffled hair, bleary eyes and a stomach most probably full with coffee, a group of 40 teachers, artists and scientists presented their musings on how to incorporate art into the STEM subjects today. Some of the brightest minds from among the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) industry had spent 24 hours locked […]

Teacher shortage fuels schools’ 拢733m supply agencies payout, union claims

Schools paid out more than £700 million to supply teacher agencies last year to fill the gap caused by a teacher shortage crisis, a union has claimed today. Teachers will lobby outside the London head offices of two agencies this afternoon in an event organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT). The union says […]

Physics A-level gender divide will take at least a century to close, academics warn

The gender divide in A-level physics will take another 100 years to close unless urgent action is taken, leading academics will claim this week. Gender differences in secondary schools will be the focus of an event run by Cambridge Assessment at the Royal College of Physicians, in London, on Thursday. Statistics from the exam group’s […]

Judicial review of grammar school expansion 鈥渧ery likely鈥

It has been widely reported the government’s decision to allow a Kent grammar school to expand to a new site nearly nine miles away will be challenged through the courts. Comprehensive Futures – which campaigns for an end to selection by ability – has told Schools Week it is taking legal advice over whether to […]