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Page Published: 29 June 2010
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Education Leaders' Guide to...

 

A range of quick guides, by various authors, to topical issues and reports that may be relevant to school leaders today.

 

  • Education leaders' guide to...2012 and beyond parliament 2012Major changes coming up in the next year include the new curriculum and implementation of the new Ofsted school inspection framework in January, as well as the new schools admissions and appeals codes and major changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage. 19/12/2011
  • Quick Guide to...the New Ofsted Framework Team of Inspectors imageThe new Ofsted inspection framework comes into effect in January 2012. This is a quick view of the points which stand out. It is not comprehensive and more detailed analysis will follow. 30/09/2011
  • Leaders' Guide to...new Teaching Standards image of ascending figurative standardsThe new standards replace the existing standards for Qualified Teacher Status and the Core professional standards previously published by the Training and Development Agency for Schools. 15/07/2011
  • Leaders' Guide to...'Prevent' terrorism strategy image of map with children and shaking handsThe Prevent strategy has been running since 2007 but has been heavily refocused after a consultation which began last November found it flawed. It says the programme had confused promoting integration with preventing terrorism, did not confront extremist ideology and sometimes even funded the extremist organisations it was intended to confront. 09/06/2011
  • Leader's Guide to the Admissions Consultation A family in a mazeNAHT provides a brief summary of the key aspects of the governments consulation on school admissions. 28/05/2011
  • Leaders' Guide to PM and Capability consultation strengths-weaknessesThe Government announced its intention to shorten and simplify the current regulations on teacher capability in its White Paper in December. It has now published its consultation document, in which it is inviting comment on a number of specific proposals around performance management and capability. 25/05/2011
  • Leaders' guide to the Ofsted Report April 2011 Microscope under magnifying glassThe Education Committee have been hearing evidence about Ofsted since November, and included a seminar with inspectors and a visit to Finland a nation without inspectors which rapidly becoming an exemplar for Government education policy part of the evidence 15/04/2011
  • Leaders' guide to the New Funding Formula Mathematical Formula on a note padThe announcement by the Department for Education that it is starting a consultation on reforming the funding formula is something of a milestone, and has been welcomed by the NAHT 13/04/2011
  • Education Leaders' Guide to the spending review image of spending reviewThe Review of Educational Capital has just been published, slightly later than James anticipated, as a result of his desire to test the emerging recommendations with as wide a group of interested parties as possible. The review team road-tested their ideas on a rebuild of a Doncaster secondary school destroyed by fire. 11/04/2011
  • Leaders' guide to the Bew Interim Report Child stressed by testsThe government has today published the long awaited interim or progress report from the Bew Review. As expected, this is a summary of the evidence rather than recommendations for the replacement system. The question before us is, does this give us confidence that the panel is moving in the right direction; that the evidence supports, even demands, real change? 05/04/2011
  • Leaders' guide to the Early Years Review Three year old playingThe Government's education revolution continues, as new legislation makes its way through Parliament, the delayed SEN Green Paper is finally published and reviews of the curriculum, KS2 testing and early years continue. 01/04/2011
  • Education Leaders' Guide to the SEN Green Paper Special Needs PupilThe Government's education revolution continues, as new legislation makes its way through Parliament, the delayed SEN Green Paper is finally published and reviews of the curriculum, KS2 testing and early years continue. 10/03/2011
  • The School Leaders' Guide To Education in 2011 2011 imageThe Government's education revolution continues, as new legislation makes its way through Parliament, the delayed SEN Green Paper is finally published and reviews of the curriculum, KS2 testing and early years continue. 01/02/2011
  • Education Leaders' Guide to the Year: November image of november calendarFor busy school leaders, forewarned is forearmed. So we've revised the timetable we published at the start of the academic year to indicate, as far as possible, what developments to expect over the coming months. 12/11/2010
  • Education Leaders' Guide to...the Spending Review profile of students in classSchools in England overall appear to have done surprisingly well out of the Comprehensive Spending Review, with a tiny real-terms budgetary increase year-on-year during the next five years. 20/10/2010
  • Education leader's guide to discipline Searching a pupil with a metal detectorFollowing the Government announcement that new powers will be given to head teachers, allowing them to search pupils, Susan Young examines this in further detail. 09/07/2010
  • Education Leaders' Guide to Free Schools academy, school, universityThe Free School scheme is examined and explained by Education Journalist Susan Young 22/06/2010
  • Education Leader's Guide to... Academies Signpost to AcademySusan Young answers some questions on the new Government's approach to Academies and the detail of the process. 09/06/2010
  • Education Leaders' Guide to...mephedrone drugs and educationThe myths and mysteries of the drug mephedrone are explored and exposed by Susan Young, Education Journalist. 06/04/2010
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