Lucas Cumiskey

1 week ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Freddie Whittaker |Jack Dyson |Lucas Cumiskey

More from this theme Recent articles The leader of the National Education Union has vowed to make Labour MPs “pay a high political price through our campaigning in their constituencies” if teachers are denied an increased, fully-funded pay rise. In his keynote speech to the union’s annual conference in Harrogate this morning, Daniel Kebede said it was “indefensible for a Labour Government, a Labour Government, to cut school funding”.

1 week ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Freddie Whittaker |Jack Dyson |Lucas Cumiskey

More from this theme Recent articles The leader of the National Education Union (NEU) has said teachers could walk out on strike as soon as the autumn term if the government won’t up its pay offer and fully-fund the increase. Daniel Kebede told journalists at the union’s annual conference in Harrogate he was “very convinced” a formal ballot would cross the required 50 per cent turnout threshold, after an indicative poll fell short at just over 47 per cent.

3 weeks ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Freddie Whittaker |Lucas Cumiskey

More from this theme Recent articles Using AI to judge student writing “has the potential to revolutionise assessment and decimate workload”, according to the findings of a trial of the approach. No More Marking, an organisation that pioneers comparative judgment as an alternative to marking written work, recently ran an AI assessment project called CJ Lightning. Comparative judgment involves deciding which is better out of two pieces of writing.

3 weeks ago | feweek.co.uk | Josh Mellor |Lucas Cumiskey

More from this theme Recent articles A new “tick less and talk more” AI tool designed to help FE teachers assess electronics practical work is set to launch this year. The tool, Elecafa.AI, is a teachers’ “buddy” that has been trained to visually assess soldering work on circuit boards and provide “constructive feedback”.

3 weeks ago | schoolsweek.co.uk | Lydia Chantler-Hicks |Jack Dyson |Lucas Cumiskey

More from this theme Recent articles Under-achievement in GCSE English and maths is well documented – and well discussed. But some schools are quietly turning things around for the “forgotten third” of year 11 pupils. Every year, about a third of GCSE pupils across England finish year 11 without achieving a grade 4 in English and maths. In 2019, a commission set up by ASCL, the leaders’ union, dubbed these children the “forgotten third”.