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Important update from the trial to test out the government’s SEND reforms

Perhaps the bumps are to be expected (and the point of trialling the changes first), but another delay will be frustrating to the sector

The exams regulator has it says on the ABS plans

Good point on just ditching trusted qualifications (as opposed to reforming them)

Well this is a much wider scope than what’s been trailed - *existing* faith free schools can apply to have the 50% cap lifted

On my way to the academies show. Anyone up for a natter so drop my a DM

Faith special schools is an interesting one - hadn’t really ever noticed they weren’t allowed

What do people think about them? Keen to hear of any potential positives/negatives

Intriguing story about how a new chair at a small trust asked for DfE reviews to help her understand what the challenges were, and then says the results were used to push the trust into a merger

'We are calling on the trust sector to work together to build knowledge about school improvement at scale'

@SteveRollett reveals Confederation of School Trusts's new 'conceptual model' of trust-led school improvement and plans for a best practice 'hub'

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.Gillian Keegan MP and her ministers will shortly take questions from MPs in the House of Commons

Stand by for live tweets! #eduQs

‘Ive always tried to provide a provocative challenge to how we do things’

Oli de Botton is our profile this week, talking all things careers education, oracy and politics

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This my story and mine alone - but The MTPT Project and New Britain want to hear yours

If you left teaching between the ages of 30 - 39 please share your story so we can understand why so many left and if there is anything we can do to support more to stay

Off the back of our annual gender pay gap audit, one sector leader makes the case for CEO pay ratios linked to a trust’s lowest-paid staff member

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Another casualty in the DfE’s big budget blackhole

That now makes: Now Teach, NPQs, teacher top-up courses, governor recruitment, teaching hub council, international recruitment premium cut

What next?

The IPL is literally now Stick Cricket and boring as hell

Children’s minister David Johnston OBE MP writes for Schools Week on the new SEND NPQ

‘it’s important to recognise that every teacher is a teacher of SEND, which is why we are also making sure that all those in the wider teaching workforce also have the necessary training and support’

It’s the hope that kills you …

Schools Week away day included real-size Monopoly

Hacks team came top Freddie Whittaker Samantha Booth Nicky Phillips Jessica Hill

Terrible showing from MAT CEOs team - we kept getting sent to jail 🫣😬😂

Lucas Cumiskey Jack Dyson JL Dutaut

Ignore the Tesla factor for a moment.

It’s possible to justify on VFM grounds providing a car. Using own car would attract a rate of 45p per mile for first 10,000 miles and 25p per mile there after. So providing an EV may be cheaper.

But a Tesla? Well, given current market…

It feels like 2015 all over again with SchoolsCompany popping up last week and now Lilac Sky this

While the case was dropped, it’s only the second time a section 128 banning order (made directly by the SoS) has been appealed

My story from the high court 👇

Lots of debate on this article about whether trusts should embrace the employment benefits traditionally more associated with the private sector now many are the same size

Many central staff travel the country, the few trusts using company cars say they are value for money

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