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Unique Arts Awards

7 March 2018

The Mouth & Foot Painting Artists Trust Fund has opened entries for its national 2018 Unique Arts Awards.

Online safety film competition

7 March 2018

Online safety charity Childnet International is challenging young people aged seven to 18 to create a short film to educate their peers about staying safe online.

Social media giants blasted for poor cyber-bullying response

28 February 2018

Social media companies have failed to show the ‘leadership or appetite’ to tackle cyber-bullying and safeguard young people's mental health, it was claimed this week. Pete Henshaw reports

Minister warns academies over levels of executive pay

28 February 2018

The government has issued a clear warning to academies which have particularly high levels of executive pay – targeting specifically those where a single employee earns more than £150,000 a year.

Stark differences in per-teacher CPD spending

28 February 2018

At least 17,000 teachers and teaching assistants are working in schools where there is hardly any budget for CPD, a new analysis has revealed.

Academies: Shortage of trusts and sponsors among concerns highlighted by National Audit Office

28 February 2018

There is “considerable regional variation” in the number of available sponsors located close to underperforming schools and a shortage of sponsors and multi-academy trusts (MAT) able to take on new academies, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

Council steps-up cash row

28 February 2018

?A cash-strapped council is appealing to parents to help it to do battle with the Welsh government over funding for its schools.

Trials of Realistic Mathematics Education

28 February 2018

?A research trial involving 24,000 pupils in 120 schools across England has set out to improve key stage 3 maths education by training teachers to use a different approach – called Realistic Mathematics Education (RME).

Recruitment campaign aims to boost RE teacher numbers

21 February 2018

A severe shortage of religious education teachers will result in pupils being unequipped to understand or challenge the stereotypes that contribute to religious discrimination, supporters of the subject have warned.

Free SecEd download: Evidence-based best practice

21 February 2018

SecEd's Research Insights articles, published in conjunction with the NFER, offer in-depth, evidence based advice, guidance and best practice covering a wide range of areas relevant to secondary school leadership, teaching and education. You can download the latest articles from 2017 and 2018 for ...

Ambition:Feed platform offers leadership support

18 February 2018

National education charity Ambition School Leadership has launched a new online platform aimed at helping teachers to tackle education’s biggest challenges.

Call to use FSM history to better target Pupil Premium

7 February 2018

An influential report on education in the North urges reform of the Pupil Premium policy to link the level of funding to the length of time a child is on free school meals. Pete Henshaw takes a look

Questions raised as DBS modernisation plan overuns

7 February 2018

Modernisation of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is running more than three-and-a-half years late and the new DBS update service has not seen the take-up or the cost savings originally anticipated by the Home Office.

Widespread opposition to reforms in Scotland

7 February 2018

Headteachers, parents, the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) and local authorities have all been highly critical of planned legislation to change the way schools are run.

Echo Eternal project focuses on Holocaust survivors' stories

7 February 2018

An arts education project is to use Holocaust survivors’ stories to teach about where prejudice and hatred can lead.

Campaigners demand mandatory online code for websites

7 February 2018

More than 1,300 cases of sexual communication with a child have been recorded in the six months since a change in the law to target offenders.

Collaboration has led to schools ‘taking ownership’ of improvement

7 February 2018

?Collaboration between schools and local authorities has resulted in significant changes across the education sector in Wales, a major assessment by the schools’ inspectorate Estyn has concluded.

New technologies CPD

7 February 2018

?Fujitsu is launching an OCR-backed course to help teachers develop their understanding of a range of new technologies.

Sharp fall in Apprenticeship take-up sparks debate over Levy

31 January 2018

Industry and education clash over the impact of the Apprenticeship Levy after the latest figures show yet further decline in the number of new apprentices

Almost 50,000 children missing from education

31 January 2018

Too little is known about the thousands of children who are missing education. Anna Feuchtwang explains

Child poverty warning as benefit freeze bites

31 January 2018

There are some areas of the UK where more than half of children are growing up in poverty.

OCD students suffer from widespread memory problems

31 January 2018

?Teenagers with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) experience widespread learning and memory problems, research has found.

Resource offers ideas and materials to help tackle Islamophobia

31 January 2018

?Pupils from one of Wales’ most diverse schools have used their own experience of racism to help teachers tackle Islamophobia.

Universities embrace city schools to offer key qualifications

31 January 2018

?Pupils in Scotland are increasingly studying for key qualifications at universities since some schools are struggling to offer their subjects of choice.

Online safety survey launched

31 January 2018

?Schools are being invited to evaluate their pupils’ skills in online safety while also helping to inform wider education policy by signing up to the Pupil Online Safety Survey.