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Girls Out Peform Boys in Science and Technology
Figures released this week reveal that girls who take the skills-based science BTEC out-perform boys, despite the fact that girls are significantly numbered by boys on the courses. Pearson, the organisation which administrates the BTEC in skills-based science, said that when girls do opt for the course, they tend to do extremely well.
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Closing the Attainment Gap in Leafy Suburb Schools
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools in England, has said that the poor children being left behind are now in leafy suburbs
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Plans for New GCSEs Unveiled
The new look GCSEs have recently been unveiled by the government in an attempt to make the qualification more difficult.
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Schools Given Power to Set Their Own Term Dates
The Department for Education has announced that all schools are to be given the power to set their own term dates. The changes are part of a broader government deregulation bill which take powers away from local authorities to regulate the schools in their area. Under the proposals, school heads and governors would decide on the dates of school terms.
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Ofsted to Mark Schools on use of Funds for Disadvantaged Students
School inspectors Ofsted have announced that primary and secondary schools may be stripped of their ‘outstanding’ status if the schools’ students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds fail to make good progress. Ofsted will now put increased scrutiny on schools, examining the use of the pupil premium payments which are reserved for the poorest students.
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Teaching Unions call Strikes in North-West
The National Union of Teachers has announced that 2,700 schools in the north-west of England will be subject to strike action. Staff at the schools are participating in a one-day strike over pay and pensions. The NUT and the NASUWT have said that more strikes should be expected in the autumn term, organised in response to government plans for later retirement, increased workload and detrimental changes to pensions.
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Experts Say New Curriculum is Not Fit for Purpose
Members of the groups hired to advise the government on the new curriculum have said that the current education plans will fundamentally damage the UK’s education system.
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Ofsted Proposes 'Superteacher' Scheme to help Disadvantaged Students
Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw delivered a speech this week in which he called for an education system which better addresses the needs of disadvantaged children. He said that poor children currently ‘unseen’ by the current system needed support from excellent teachers drawn from around the country. Wilshaw referred to this as a ‘national service’ for teachers, where ‘superteachers’ would be brought into mediocre schools to work with disadvantaged children.
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SAT Students Studying New Curriculum Will Take Old Tests
This week the Department for Education has confirmed that although students will begin studying the new national curriculum in 2014, they will be tested on the old one in 2015.
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