Jasmine Norden

Leeds, London

Reporter at Tes

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DfE reveals 215 'stuck' schools getting RISE support

6 days ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

The Department for Education has revealed the 215 “stuck” schools that are receiving targeted support from its new Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) advisers. The published list includes the 32 initial schools in the first cohort for RISE support - three of which are no longer deemed to be stuck after their latest Ofsted inspection - and 186 schools that are receiving support from the summer term onwards.
Progress scores have fallen in Priority Education Investment Areas

1 week ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

Areas of the country that were targeted for extra education funding through government intervention programmes actually saw progress scores decline, a new analysis has found. Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIAs) and Opportunity Areas (OAs) have seen a fall in average progress scores since the initiatives were launched, according to new findings from FFT Education Datalab.
Heads vote to open way for academies to rejoin LAs

1 week ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

Headteachers have voted to press the government to establish a route for academies to return to local authority (LA) control. At the NAHT school leaders’ union annual conference in Harrogate, delegates backed a motion calling for schools to be able to “leave one trust and either join another or rejoin the local authority”. Headteacher Alasdair Black, proposing the motion, highlighted concerns with “untouchable” schools that are repeatedly rebrokered.
Most school leaders ‘struggling’ to support pupils with SEND

1 week ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

More than four in five of school leaders have pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who are not getting their needs met because of a lack of specialist places, a poll shows. In a survey by the NAHT school leaders’ union, 82 per cent of respondents said they have pupils in their school with specialist provision agreed in their education, health and care plan (EHCP) who aren’t being taught in specialist provision because there are no places available.
Trust leaders' concerns over RISE school improvement teams

1 week ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

Trust leaders have raised concerns about transparency regarding the Department for Education’s Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) programme after the second wave of advisers were announced. The DfE has announced the latest tranche of RISE school improvement advisers, bringing the total to 65. These will support more than 200 schools - but some questions remain about how the government’s key policy reform will operate.
School funding crisis threatens inclusion, warns new NAHT president

1 week ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

An unfunded teacher pay award will leave schools with nothing left to cut but staff, hitting the government’s drive to promote inclusion in mainstream settings, the incoming president of the NAHT school leaders’ union has warned. Angi Gibson was speaking amid fears that schools will be left having to find £800 million in savings from their existing budgets to cover pay awards for 2025-26.
Unions begin legal action against Teaching Regulation Agency

2 weeks ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

School staff unions have started legal action alleging that the Teaching Regulation Agency is not complying with its public sector equality duty. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), the NAHT school leaders’ union, the NEU and NASUWT teaching unions and the general union Community submitted a claim for judicial review at the High Court on 17 April.
DfE appoints advisers to help schools deliver free breakfast clubs

2 weeks ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

Schools are “likely to face a range of delivery challenges” in providing the new free breakfast clubs, the Department for Education has said when publishing contracts for expert advisers who will help schools. The DfE has published 19 contracts, worth a total of £629,850, for experts who will deliver tailored support and advice to schools in the breakfast club early adopters programme.
DfE cuts teacher training recruitment target by 19%

2 weeks ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

The official target for recruiting postgraduates into initial teacher training for next year has been reduced as teacher retention is forecast to improve. The Department for Education has set a target of recruiting 26,920 trainees in 2025-26 - a number that is 19.3 per cent lower than this year. The primary trainee target is 7,650 for next year, an 18.6 per cent year-on-year decrease, while the secondary target is 19,270, a 19.6 per cent fall.
DfE recruits more RISE advisers to increase 'stuck' schools support

2 weeks ago | tes.com | Jasmine Norden

An additional 45 regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) advisers will start work this week to help bring support to more than 200 schools, the Department for Education has announced. There are now 65 RISE advisers in total after the first 20 appointees were announced in February. The programme was initially supporting 32 “stuck” schools but this will now be expanded to more than 200.