Huw Lewis, the Welsh Education Minister, has announced new guidelines which aim to transform teacher training courses in Wales, including a new two-year postgraduate course and greater subject specialism for primary school teachers.
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’.
An investigation into the performance, accountability and governance of multi-academy trusts (MATs) has been launched by the House of Commons Education Committee.
The large salaries enjoyed by chief executives at some of England’s academy chains is not justified by the performance of the schools they run, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) Further Education Lecturers’ Association have announced more details concerning a planned series of strikes.
The Get Into Teaching campaign advertisement, which prompted a number of complaints from education bosses who claimed the advert exaggerated teachers’ pay, has been excused by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
According to data from exams watchdog Ofqual, just 66 of 156 specifications have been accredited, leaving 58 per cent of exam papers still in draft form.
The work of teaching assistants in schools has been shown to improve pupils’ attainment in two studies funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).
According to a statement by Children’s Minister Edward Timpson there are currently 21 schools being investigated in England by the Department for Education (DfE).
