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KS2 Sats: Fivefold increase in use of transcribers

3 days ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The use of transcribers for key stage 2 Sats has increased more than fivefold since before the pandemic amid concerns about declining pupil handwriting, the impact of Covid-19 disruption and the susceptibility of the system to abuse.
What GCSE uptake in special schools could tell us about inclusion

6 days ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The number of pupils in special schools has been spiralling, along with a capacity crisis and looming local authority bankruptcies. And a big part of the solution, according to education secretary Bridget Phillipson, is a bright, more inclusive future for mainstream schools. Some supporters of this policy point to the rising number of students in specialist settings taking GCSEs as evidence that many could, with the right support, attend a mainstream school. Does this hold up?
More primaries take 'far from perfect' KS1 Sats

6 days ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

More primary schools are planning to run key stage 1 Sats this month compared with last year, despite now having to actively order the tests themselves. The tests were made optional by the Department for Education in 2023, amid concerns over “anxiety” among young children, and replaced by the Reception Baseline Assessment. Last year, the DfE automatically shared the tests for free - but this year, schools had to download them from a government portal or order hard copies online.
Cut GCSE exam papers to boost wellbeing, suggests OCR chief

1 week ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The chief executive of exam board OCR has suggested that all GCSEs should be limited to two exam papers lasting no longer than 90 minutes each, in a bid to boost student wellbeing. Jill Duffy was speaking earlier this week at an Education Select Committee evidence session on the curriculum and assessment review. She said that “we could reduce that level of assessment without impacting on reliability or impacting on standards” and that the move “could have a positive impact on wellbeing”.
Pupil suspensions increased in spring 2024, DfE data shows

3 weeks ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Pupil suspensions increased by 12 per cent in England in the spring term last year compared with the previous year, according to newly released data. Department for Education data shows there were 295,559 pupils suspended in spring term in 2023-24, up from 263,904 in same term in 2022-23. The suspension rate per 100,000 pupils also increased to 3.5 last spring term, up from 3.13 in spring 2022-23.
Misogyny in schools: Female teachers suffer more verbal abuse

3 weeks ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Female teachers are more likely to suffer verbal abuse than their male counterparts, with more than one in four saying they experience such abuse several times a week. A further 14.3 per cent of female teachers reported suffering verbal abuse daily, compared with 9.8 per cent of male teachers, according to a survey by the NASUWT teaching union. Some 20.4 per cent of male teachers said they were verbally abused several times a week.
Large MATs are ‘havens for higher workload’, says NEU boss

1 month ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The general secretary of the NEU teaching union has claimed that large multi-academy trusts are “havens for higher workload and poorer work-life balance”. Daniel Kebede said it is a “myth” that academies are more attractive to teachers because they offer greater flexibility over pay and conditions.
1 in 3 primary teachers have ‘little or no influence’ on lesson content

1 month ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Around one in three primary school teachers have warned that they have “little or no influence at all” over the content of individual lessons, research into the impact of standardised curriculum packages (SCPs) has found. SCPs can be “imposed from above” and “lead to teachers leaving the profession”, according to a report published today by the NEU teaching union. It defines SCPs as ready-to-go schemes of work, programmes or packages for teachers to follow.
School-ready pupils target ‘at risk’ because of family support cuts

1 month ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The government risks missing its target of ensuring that 75 per cent of children are “school-ready” by 2028 unless it commits to overhauling the “precarious” funding system for children’s centres and Family Hubs, a think tank warns. A report from the Centre for Young Lives reveals that almost half of local authorities in England (49 per cent) expect cuts to their children’s centre and Family Hub budgets between 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Sats: Scrutiny over transcripts fuels rise in alleged cheating

1 month ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Alleged Sats cheating has surged in the past two years amid greater scrutiny of transcripts, which are used when pupils’ handwriting may be illegible. Cases of key stage 2 Sats “maladministration” - actions that risk undermining the integrity of tests or could lead to results that do not reflect pupils’ genuine ability - rose to 609 last year, up from 386 in 2022 - a 58 per cent increase.