Clerks Associates UK2 Weeks in Education – October 13th 2014
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Highlights
Get nominating for the NGA Outstanding Governance Awards
Governor Thoughtnightly – 6 Top Tips for New School Governors
Social Mobility & Poverty Commission report on how schools can improve social mobility
DfE: EFA academies training, videos, interactive webinars and EFA experts
Questions for Governors: science and maths in English secondary schools
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[1] DfE
[1.1] DfE Education Funding Agency
[2] Education Committee
[3] Ofsted
[3.1] Ofsted in the news
[4] Ofqual
[5] School Admissions and Exclusions
[6] Governance, Leadership and Unions
[7] News reporting
[1] DfE
Guidance: School census 2014: notepad entries for COLLECT queries
Guidance: School census autumn 2014 guide: same person, different UPN
Press release: Thousands more school leavers staying in education or training
Statistics: Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2012 to 2013
Guidance: 16 to 19 accountability headline measures: technical guide
Press release: Young adults thanked by minister for helping to mould policy
Correspondence: Safeguarding vulnerable children
[1.1] DfE Education Funding Agency
Transparency data: Section 251 budget workbooks: 2014 to 2015: Budget and output statements on the pl…
[2] Education Committee
No reports
[3] Ofsted
Ofsted consults on radical changes to inspection
[3.1] Ofsted in the news
Gove considered removing Wilshaw as Ofsted chief, memo reveals
Former Ofsted chief attacks ‘socially toxic’ culture of privilege
Academies: patchy results and scandal ‘inevitable’, warns former Ofsted chair
Ofsted: more snap inspections to prevent new ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal
[4] Ofqual
Glenys Stacey’s speech to The Key Conference, 2nd October
[5] School Admissions and Exclusions
Parents to report bullying and give permission for school trips by mobile phone
[6] Governance, Leadership and Unions
Ofsted still has work to do to restore trust in inspection judgements says ASCL
ATL comment on reforms of Ofsted
NAHT believes wholesale reform of Ofsted is necessary
Heads call for Ofsted transformation
Get nominating for the NGA Outstanding Governance Awards
Politicians must commit to seriously tackling child poverty to address achievement gaps in education
Teaching assistants are key ingredient in helping to raise standards
Government puts its faith in teaching assistants with new standards
Governing bodies should ditch ‘passengers’ and slim down, says minister
What can international education research really tell us?
Astonishing figures from NUT survey show scale of teacher workload crisis
New teachers struggle to ‘manage’ classrooms, according to poll of heads
Single-sex classes ‘make no difference’ to girls, says head
Heads want ‘injustices’ of bad examiners redressed
Heads and universities welcome Ofqual intervention in the grading of A-level Modern Languages exams
[7] News reporting
‘Mental health issues in children have been a hidden struggle for too long’
League table shake-up may put ‘good’ schools in danger zone
Parents face online homework dilemma
Tackling child poverty is not a cost, it’s a saving
Oxford University head attacks ‘vainglorious’ politicians
‘Local schools’ drive inequality
‘Urgent’ action needed to address behavioural problems of young SEND pupils
Attacking schools will not help to tackle deep seated issues of social inequality
Homework ‘damages’ primary age pupils
Social mobility tsar: 60,000 children a year being failed by poor schools
Authors, teachers and parents launch revolt over ‘exam factory’ schools
Half of Britons can’t spell ‘fluorescent’ without spellcheck, literacy study finds
A Labour government could mean more exam turmoil, Ofqual warns
Schools not doing enough to help poor pupils succeed – says report
Privilege: that’s the only area where private schools excel
Disabled pupils’ behaviour ‘a worry’
A third of free schools employed unqualified teachers, research shows
How being a teacher has become increasingly dangerous
‘Glorious isolation’ for academy schools won’t work
Digital divide opening in UK schools
Shake-up could see 11 schools close
Teachers to haul pupils from their beds in truancy drive
‘Professional parent’ pressure drives mothers to exhaustion
Education lottery ‘stacks odds against’ poor pupils, says Oxford academic
