Education Spending Fall
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) education establishments, including schools and colleges, in England have suffered the worst fall in spending since the 1970s. The recent government has committed to increasing the funding within schools which amounts to £4.3 billion a year by 2022 which will ‘just about reverse’ the 8 per cent […]
25% of Teachers Work 60 Hours Per Week
A quarter of educators in England work more than 60 hours per week, far more than their counterparts across the world. The government has tried to reduce workload over the last 5 years using several initiatives and although some teachers have stated their work has decreased, the amount of time they are spending teaching and […]
200 Schools Drop Out of Pilot
Some 9,600 schools signed up to take part in the pilot scheme for the baseline assessment earlier this year, the pilot scheme assesses four and five-year-old children in maths and language, communication and literacy from when they join Reception, starting this term. Since the start of the new academic year, almost 200 schools have dropped […]
New Teachers to be Given Behaviour Training
Behaviour in schools is a huge problem for many educational schools in England, a lot of individuals leave the profession naming behaviour as one of the main reasons. Ofsted have finally clocked on and are now tracking how teachers manage behaviour during their initial teacher training under the new inspection plans to come into effect […]
Vulnerable SEND Pupils with No Plans
In England, there are many young students with SEND in the classroom who have Education, Health and Care Plans however there are numerous individuals who are vulnerable because they have not been given an EHCP. NAO (National Audit Office) reported that of the 1.3 million children in England with SEND receive high quality support throughout […]
