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Explained: What we learned from four Ofsted report card inspections

If the renewed framework can play a role in supporting...
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classroom

Explained: We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that...
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classroom

Explained: Impact of RISE teams to be published this year

But government will publish individual adviser objectives amid data protection...
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classroom

Explained: Primary headteachers share joy and surprise at being made MBEs

Four serving heads at state primaries were among 57 people...
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classroom

Explained: Why digital transformation must be a priority for schools in 2026

AI tools to improve teaching, workloads, admin and pupil results...
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Explained: Call for ministers to settle debate over make-up of MATs

Debate comes as huge trust gives up two special schools...
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Explained: First 16-year-old voters are already political, but they need schools’ support

Teenagers who will vote in 2029 are forming views without...
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Explained: No internal audit for trust with £8.4m deficit

Trouble-hit Arthur Terry Learning Partnership could receive a further £1...
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Explained: How falling school rolls are not just London’s crisis

Declining childbirth rates are hitting school demographics with many schools...
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Explained: New powers to close academy trusts ‘must be used with caution’

Sector responds to news government is set to gain new...
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Explained: DfE plans to use AI to help answer your emails

Plans say system can reduce time to draft a response...
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classroom

Explained: Internal exclusion: Reset or rejection?

Government does not collect national data on internal exclusion. But...
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Explained: SEND roadshow sessions ‘have shaped our thinking’, insists Gould

Schools Week joined the schools minister in Darlington to discuss...
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Explained: Trust inspections and new intervention powers: What we know so far

Ofsted to inspect academy trusts for the first time and...
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classroom

Explained: New GCSE results app to be rolled out nationwide

It follows a pilot where just six per cent of...
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