Cerys Turner
News reporter @tes, covering Ofsted, primary, early years & edtech. Former @cityjournalism, ✍🏻 The Times, Big Issue, Metro (pronounced Keh-Riss)
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5 days ago |
tes.com | Jasmine Norden |Cerys Turner
Critics of the government’s early adopters breakfast-club scheme have repeatedly warned that schools are only getting 60p per pupil for food and staff. And a Tes survey earlier this month revealed major concerns about the pilot’s funding rates, with some schools saying they were having to dilute fruit juice and cancel hot food.
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1 week ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Early career teachers and their mentors have struggled with a “high and complex” workload, a review of the government’s Early Career Framework (ECF) has found. The Department for Education has published a three-year evaluation of the implementation of the ECF, which early career teachers (ECTs) follow for their first two years in the profession.
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1 week ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Teacher training providers are seeking clarification from the government about how international teacher trainees will be impacted by planned immigration reforms. Earlier this month the government set out changes to its immigration policies to reduce the number of people entering the country. However, the teaching sector is yet to receive answers on how this will impact those from overseas entering the profession amid a recruitment and retention crisis.
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2 weeks ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
The volume of work covered in the planned new Ofsted inspection framework is not “realistic” to carry out in one and a half days, leaders involved in trial inspections have warned. Ofsted is trialling its inspection report cards in 240 schools across the country in preparation for a full rollout in November. Tes has spoken to leaders who volunteered to take part in the pilot scheme, who have given the first indication of how the inspectorate’s upcoming framework feels on the ground.
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2 weeks ago |
tes.com | Cerys Turner
Julian Drinkall is stepping down as chief executive of GLF Schools with immediate effect. Mr Drinkall became CEO of the 43-school trust in 2023, but today the trust has announced that he will be leaving his role by “mutual agreement”. He was previously chief executive of Academies Enterprise Trust (now known as Lift Schools), a role he held from 2016 to 2021 before joining international education provider Aga Khan Schools.
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A further blow to Ofsted’s school card plans this morning: Education leaders, teachers, former HMI & Prof Julia Waters, sister of headteacher Ruth Perry, have written to the SoS to urge her to delay the proposals, or risk “further, preventable deaths”. https://t.co/SdV7qyHQMZ
Strong words from @NAHTnews on Ofsted’s report cards proposals: The union warned that the plans risk the “health and wellbeing of school leaders” and raised concerns that no impact assessment on teacher wellbeing, workload & health has been made. https://t.co/jNedgNW6xB
RT @steverollett: Both articles brought together in this piece by @cerysturner7 https://t.co/UMBS0xT9qn