NASBTT has has announced a plan to ensure trainee teachers are better prepared for increased SEND demands on schools ...

EPI CEO Natalie Perera has announced she will step down from her position at the end of January, having been at the helm since its creation in 2015. Sir Chris Husbands, the EPI’s chair, said Perera’s ...

Government recognition of the importance of enrichment gives us all the chance to rebuild the provision that gives education its spark, write Liz Robinson and Ruth Marvel. Ask any ...

Proposed changes to league tables will make “little difference” to the progress 8 and attainment 8 scores of most schools, but will likely affect GCSE entries, with just 65 per cent of current ...

AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance “back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels” have been suspended just days after they were launched.

A school has been refused permission to cut its intake by a quarter despite estimates of a “catastrophic” £2 million deficit after the local authority opposed the plans. Winsford Academy wanted to ...

A baseline assessment, like those delivered by Cambridge Insight, provides schools with detailed data on student ability and potential. But once a teacher knows the baseline of their students’ ...

Richmond council was cited by top government official as mostly clearing its high needs SEND deficit. But it has now fallen back into the red ...

Schools will face a legal duty to record their use of non-disciplinary isolation and report it to parents under plans being developed by the government.

But if our students come to believe that knowledge no longer needs to be learned, that it can always be summoned, then something fundamental is lost. If AI convinces them that knowing is unnecessary, ...

There are two main approaches to training teachers and leaders on SEND, which I’ll describe as outside-in and inside-out. This approach trains teachers and leaders in how to support children according ...

When it launched in 2009, Ormiston took on three schools. One of these was Ormiston Park. But since then, it has remained the trust’s only Thurrock school.