Leadership and Policy

At a glance headlines: January 30, 2014

Government policy

Arts and Minds 2014 to promote diversity and equality in schools

Behaviour

Strategies for stretching your most able students

Senior leadership

Secondary education overhaul to see school mergers and closures

Government policy

Inspiring state-private school partnerships

School improvement

Free school rules change as more applications approved

Behaviour

Concerns raised over Teach First’s links to business world

Senior leadership

NAO warns of ‘errors and uncertainties’ in academy accounts

Government policy

Strategies for EAL success

Inclusion

Hunger shock sparks food bank collection scheme

Teaching resources

Applications sought by £1.5m fund set up to improve use of research

School funding and finance

Governors: Be careful pushing the corporate label

Governance and management