*loads* of comments about our Scouting for Teachers scoop - but I think the below is a favourite

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Scouting for … teachers

Interesting new recruitment push from the Department for Education

Scoop from Lucas Cumiskey

Excl: One of the government’s lead providers of national professional qualifications has said it will drop out of the scheme after it was significantly scaled back.
EDT will not bid to deliver NPQs for the Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025 cohorts.
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Exclusive: One of the government’s lead providers of national professional qualifications has said it will drop out of the scheme after it was significantly scaled back
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Woah … that’s a huge drop in just one year

Amid renewed calls for Labour to adopt a new Sure Start policy, Ed Dorrell sets out for Schools Week how this could look and why schools should be at the heart of it all

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Some great responses to Mike Ion’s (very well read) SENDCO op-ed, including this super thread providing some good challenge and further solutions

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Gilbert served as HMCI from 2006 until 2011 and is now chair of the Education Endowment Foundation and the Camden Learning schools partnership

Exclusive: The education secretary said her comments about punching Ofsted inspectors were 'off-the-cuff remarks made in a light-hearted manner', as she swerved a trade union's call to publicly retract the statement
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As growth is on many MAT’s lips, what do we know about the dos and don’ts?

We speak to four leaders that have helped right the ship after their trusts had previously got growth wrong.

Here’s what they did and what they learned… Our latest solutions piece 👇

An important story that could become a wider issue in the coming years for smaller trusts looking to grow

Most secondaries are academies now - so finding ‘capacity giver’ schools to ensure financial and school improvement stability needed for growth will be more difficult

Fascinating profile with a leader about what it’s like to be on the end of trial by social media, leading a Lord’s trust and some insightful takes on GAG pooling, attendance and the current trend of teacher training amalgamation

Quotes our scoop from a few months ago about how one of the country’s leading trusts sends a team to Jamaica each year to recruit teachers because of shortages in England

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If you read one edu article over your Easter break, make it this one. Julie McCulloch forensically examines the creeping use of 'should' in DfE guidance over statutory legislation , and asks 'why'? (Spoiler alert - she also provides some answers!). A genuinely brilliant article

Interesting debate below on the for and against on GAG pooling - which, like it or lump it, I think is likely the future of how schools in MATs will be funded

Killer detail in this story 🤣

‘One respondent is so determined to use the available text boxes to ensure we hear the message that they have included ‘GET RID OF THE ONE WORD JUDGMENTS’ as their gender, sexuality and religion, for example’

'In almost every school teachers are less satisfied with their work-life balance than other members of staff'

🔬 John Jerrim
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The situation in children’s care homes is definitely much worse - but this is also hitting the special school sector

Our investigation from last year: How private equity is making millions from bankrupt SEND system

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Robert Robert Halfon MP ➡️Working Hard for Harlow⬅️ has been at the centre of further education and apprenticeships policy for 14 years - twice as minister with a spell as education committee chair in between.

His genuine passion for FE at the top of government will be a huge loss

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