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DfE to launch ‘Excellence in Leadership Fund’
EB News: 17/03/2016 - 12:55
The Department for Education (DfE) has announced plans to launch an ‘Excellence in Leadership Fund’, which will encourage multi-academy trusts and other providers to develop ‘innovative ways of boosting leadership’.
The funding comes alongside a host of other measures introduced in the ‘Educational Excellence Everywhere’ white paper that aim to help tackle leadership challenges in the areas where good leaders are most needed.
This includes rebalancing incentives to encourage leaders to work in challenging schools, along with the introduction of an ’improvement period’ where schools will not be inspected by Ofsted, which aims to take the immediate pressure off of new leaders and give them the time to make improvements after taking over a leadership role.
The DfE will also introduce the new National Teacher Service to better support elite teachers and strong middle leaders to progress to leadership roles in challenging areas.
The Speech, Language and Communications Alliance was officially launched at The Houses of Parliament. The Alliance was created to foster better support for children and young people with speech, language, and communication challenges in the UK
Poll findings reveal more than half of primary teachers agree that perceptions of having a ‘natural talent’ for maths prevents students from achieving their potential in the subject.
A £2 million investment in raising standards in reading and writing is set to benefit thousands of pupils across England, following a speech education secretary Bridget Phillipson to the Centre of Social Justice on Monday 3rd February that outlined the success of phonics and the wish to build on that development.
The Centre for Mental Health have launched their Future Minds campaign following their new research that estimates that the long-term impact of the childhood mental health crisis is costing the UK over £1 trillion in lifetime lost earnings.