John Dickens
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Multi-award winning investigative journo. Editor of education paper @SchoolsWeek. Former Slough Obs, nationals freelancer. Tips: [email protected]
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Joined October 2010
Edition 410 done and dusted Scoop: Ofsted consultation analysis row takes a new turn 👀 Solutions: teacher interns? Investigation: thousands of teachers potentially due better pension die before outcome Rise in pupils educated at home causes exams centre blockage
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❌ Exclusive: 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 This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided... https://t.co/YB2OsHfjdV
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Government had said the reports would help bring attendance 'back to - and beyond - pre-pandemic levels'
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Well then …
Big news to wake up to on a Saturday morning. Josh Hazlewood ruled out of the Perth Test with a hamstring injury. The news comes on the same day Mark Wood was cleared of his own hamstring problem. #bbccricket #Ashes
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Exclusive: Thousands of retired teachers and leaders potentially entitled to better pensions following the landmark McCloud ruling have died before even receiving statements outlining what they could receive https://t.co/bnUuGoBF2T
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New data reveals scale of backlog facing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme administrators Capita
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🚨 Government will use AI to set minimum attendance targets for schools to meet this year in the latest bid to crackdown on absence Expectations will be used to offer support through RISE teams, rather than as another accountability measure https://t.co/0OdUXqczWR
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AI-generated targets will be set for all schools in England, government has announced, as it looks to crackdown on absence rates.
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Great to see wider pick up of this big story on a state school opening a fee-pay paying school abroad https://t.co/qveJ5hmsyR Schools Week broke the story over a year ago:
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A grammar school is looking to raise 'significant funds' by opening affiliate schools overseas, a market dominated by the independent sector
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The latest government plan to help schools balance their budgets: Provide support to help them get better returns on their collective £6bn of funding in reserves https://t.co/s7wmTSKoZ8
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Government thinks vision will ease school funding woes by 'unlocking' the sector's 'substantial reserves'
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The irony of this coming as government wonders why assistant head numbers have risen so much and suggests schools look at making savings in those teams ... https://t.co/HRZVpoBc7H
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Ministers point to rising numbers of assistant heads in cost-cutting advice
🎒 Schools have been told to appoint a point of contact for families needing support with uniform ❌ New guidance also suggests setting requirements banning 'visible logos' on PE kit to reduce costs and 'peer pressure to wear designer sportswear' https://t.co/F4D46IM6TA
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Interesting development - a lack of evidence of what works in SEND was a key finding from our investigation into the quality of EHCPs https://t.co/Bqlcc7QK2L
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Interventions lacking evidence, copy and paste plans, health + social care missing, Schools Week investigates
Exclusive: Ministers plan to launch a £3 million 'education neuroscience research centre' to help inform policymaking in key reform areas such as SEND, Schools Week can reveal https://t.co/hDcC1GLjYp
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Edition 409 done and dusted: A curriculum and assessment review SPECIAL ... PLUS: Government plans £3m SEND research centre Do schools really have too many assistant heads? Ministers scope out plan to help schools boost investment returns
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The new curriculum 'will be implemented in full, for first teaching from September 2028', the government has said Now updated with a handy timeline... https://t.co/FeGHk6Mws4
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Excellent thread on the curriculum review from the person leading the country’s largest trust …
Thread: In public service reform, the thing that is most often needed - but scarcely ever provided when governments get involved - is rational, evidence-based action with a 'continuous improvement' mindset. Making better what is working and changing what isn't. 1/
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We need a concrete plan to train more physics teachers. Time to think out of the box @educationgovuk
Starting to get important answers and reaction to the curriculum review Phillipson admits triple science pledge will need more specialist teachers: https://t.co/zZgAbMIvRf RE will be put on the national curriculum only if sector can ‘reach consensus’ https://t.co/GS13nLmpvR
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Starting to get important answers and reaction to the curriculum review Phillipson admits triple science pledge will need more specialist teachers: https://t.co/zZgAbMIvRf RE will be put on the national curriculum only if sector can ‘reach consensus’ https://t.co/GS13nLmpvR
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Some more big curriculum news Ministers ignore curriculum review's call for no progress 8 changes and set out proposals for big 'breadth' subject shake-up Full story below
Breaking: The government is proposing sweeping reforms to progress 8, the main league table measure for secondary schools, in a bid to boost arts take-up – and will ditch the EBacc from this academic year https://t.co/kKglYX15Az
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🚨 The long-awaited curriculum and assessment review recommendations have been published. Read this really useful round-up by @SchoolsWeek of the key policy recommendations https://t.co/RHCtMP11GY
#curriculum #assessment #education #school #edux #edutwitter
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PS - the curriculum review report can now be viewed in full here: https://t.co/uzoKNWXshy
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The conclusions and recommendations of the independent review of the curriculum, assessment and qualifications system in England.
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And last (but certainly not least) we’ve got a full Q&A with review chair Becky Francis on her thinking behind the major policies in the curriculum review (5/5) ➡️
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Chair explains thinking behind year 8 tests, scrapping EBacc and triple science guarantee
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Meanwhile, there’s a whole load of *subject-specific* policy proposals, too Our full round-up on those is here, and includes mandatory citizenship, RE being put in the national curriculum and a triple science entitlement (4/5) ➡️ https://t.co/ML7tdFl5rk
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Mandatory citizenship, RE in the national curriculum and triple science entitlement
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But what else does the review call for? All the *system-wide* policy reccs are below Includes year 8 ‘diagnostic’ tests in English and maths (note: this is different to the DfE's year 8 reading test) and cutting 10 per cent from GCSE exam time (3/5) ➡️ https://t.co/RHZ5ZYaqSY
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Scrap EBacc, year 8 tests in English and maths, cut 10% from GCSE exam time
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