by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Cabinet Office has produced a practical guide providing information about faith and belief in the Civil Service. This may be useful for members to use to increase literacy about faith with their organisations and ensure they are inclusive.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorised
Edward Timpson published a government commissioned review into school exclusions last month. Timpson appeared before the Education Committee on 2 July to discuss some of the recommendations in his review and the government’s response. You can watch the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ofsted has published a blog on what intent means in the quality of education judgement in the new school inspection handbook. It outlines that intent is about what leaders intend pupils to learn, that intent is everything up to the point at which teaching...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Centres for Excellence in Maths monthly newsletter for June, which aims to provide the further education sector with updates regarding the Centres for Excellence in Maths programme including best practice case studies, dates for the diary and news from the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jul 1, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA’s monthly e-news for MI managers, software writers and suppliers about FE data systems and reports, the ILR, open data and other data news.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Little Gate Farm is a charity supporting young people with autism/learning disabilities in possession of an Education Health Care Plan. They have received a lottery grant of £425,000 to launch a supported apprenticeship and traineeship programme across East Sussex...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Following research by Ofsted into the validity and reliability of its inspection methods this week, it has found its model for assessing the quality of lessons does not fit FE providers. As a result, Ofsted said it is working on developing a model that is more suited...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ofsted has published reports looking into reliable and valid methods for inspectors to assess the quality of education using lesson observation and workbook scrutiny.
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has published guidance relating to apprenticeship end-point assessments and changes to their starts policy for new standards being approved. From 1 October 2019 the ESFA will not fund apprentices to start on a new standard until an End-Point Assessment...
by Sarah Sawyer | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
The ETF publishes a fortnightly T Level bulletin which details the Department for Education’s funded T level professional development offer. The latest edition can be seen here, you can sign up for these updates at the bottom of the bulletin.
