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Jan
Apprenticeships to be promoted as much as academic paths in schools' career guidance
Schools must now allow equal airtime to the non-academic routes pupils can take post-16, in a bid to improve careers guidance and end “outdated snobbery” towards
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Jan
School leadership recruitment most challenging in deprived areas
Recruiting Head Teachers in remote and deprived areas is most challenging, as leadership role applications experience a drop nationally, a new report reveals. The document
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Jan
Rambling Rant from a Head Teacher
Carla asked a question, ‘Can you write a few words for the SCHOOLS NorthEast website? Yes, probably. Will it be the ‘coherent summary of my view of the current educational
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Jan
Progress 8 pilots published for first time
Schools that opted in to the Progress 8 pilot in 2015 are having their data published for the first time. Four out of the eight schools participating in our region performed above
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Jan
Student Councils – marmite to me!
In recent years students have, rightly in my opinion, come to have a greater say in their schools thanks to a commitment to ‘student voice’ activities. There has also been a
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Jan
Middlesbrough Ofsted letter 'demoralising to teachers'
Ofsted regional director, Nick Hudson, has written to Middlesbrough Council to raise concerns about standards in primary education in the town. According to a report in the
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