This newly published report from the DfE is based on last year's figures so is not entirely up to date, but it tells a story we are all familiar with, and which has not improved since then. The research and analysis was carried out by BMG Research and CooperGibson Research. Most schools felt they were … Continue reading Schools’ responses to financial pressures 2023
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Careful Calculation: Addressing maths anxiety in the classroom
A new report from GL Assessment, drawing on the experiences of educators and experts, covering: The factors contributing to girls' maths attainment lag post-pandemic, including low confidence and anxiety. Practical strategies for identifying and addressing maths anxiety in your classroom. Learn how the New Group Maths Test helps teachers adapt to each student's level and … Continue reading Careful Calculation: Addressing maths anxiety in the classroom
Access to local and national data on child sexual abuse in England and Wales.
The Data Insights Hub is a new interactive dashboard from the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse that is designed to enable professionals, commissioners and researchers to find, understand and use official data on child sexual abuse. You can access the data hub here.
The mature MAT model
The NGA has published a new report, The mature MAT model success, innovation and challenges in the trust system. This report follows two previous NGA studies, in 2019 and 2021, charting the trust system’s evolution with a particular focus on governance. Download the report here to explore the following themes: The mature academy trustThe resources … Continue reading The mature MAT model
Impact of school closures in Key Stage 1
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published a report on the impact of school closures in Key Stage 1 on attainment and social skills of pupils in Year 4 and Year 5 in academic year 2023/2024, using a longitudinal observational study that followed a group of children who were at the very start of primary … Continue reading Impact of school closures in Key Stage 1
OECD report: Education at a Glance 2024
Education at a Glance is the definitive guide to the state of education around the world. More than 100 charts and tables in the publication and country notes – as well as many more in the data explorer – describe the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression … Continue reading OECD report: Education at a Glance 2024
Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds
New research led by Bill Nicholl and Ian Hosking at the University of Cambridge suggests that teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes. The findings are from a year-long University of Cambridge study with Design and … Continue reading Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds
Understanding current practice and research priorities in teaching Writing
A new report from The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) focuses on furthering the understanding of current practice and research priorities in teaching Writing. Key findings include: Similarities in schools between all key stages in terms of their approaches and/or programmes to teach Writing, and how the decisions on the approach to Writing are made and … Continue reading Understanding current practice and research priorities in teaching Writing
Impact of the cost-of-living crisis on schools
Megan Lucas and Jenna Julius from the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) have written a new report on the impact of cost-of-living. The NFER website notes: Since 2021, unprecedented increases in energy costs, rapid increases in food costs and substantial increases in the cost of housing via higher rent/mortgage costs have driven a dramatic … Continue reading Impact of the cost-of-living crisis on schools
Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence
In the 2022-23 academic year, 22.3% of all pupils were persistently absent. ImpactEd Evaluation launched Understanding Attendance, a national project helping schools and trusts to identify the underlying drivers of pupil absence, and the first report from this project "Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence from over 30,000 young people in England" … Continue reading Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence
Generative AI in education: educator and expert views
The The Open Innovation Team from the DfE has today (24 January) published a research findings report on the use of Generative AI (GenAI) in education. The introduction states: Although GenAI is not new, recent advances in the underlying technology and greater accessibility mean that the public can now use it more easily. This poses … Continue reading Generative AI in education: educator and expert views
Improvement through empowerment
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a new report "Improvement through empowerment: Helping our teachers and schools be the best they can be". On their website they state: We need to shift the drivers of better schooling from high stakes top-down accountability to a system which empowers schools and teachers to innovate and … Continue reading Improvement through empowerment
Parental Engagement Report 2023
The new Edurio Parental Engagement Report has just been published. It looks into the feedback from 38,000 parents and carers from 266 schools across 30 trusts in the 2022/2023 school year. Additionally, by reviewing the feedback of 86,000 parents from the past 4 years, the report uncovers how they really feel about efforts to engage … Continue reading Parental Engagement Report 2023
A review of current practice focusing on the strategies used to manage teacher workload in English schools
The Education Endowment Foundation has published a practice review on supporting the recruitment and retention of teachers in schools with high proportions of disadvantaged pupils: understanding current practice around managing teacher workload. The report is by Principal investigator Kerry Martin and Co-investigators: Caroline Sharp, Rachel Classick and Henry Faulkner-Ellis. You can download it from their … Continue reading A review of current practice focusing on the strategies used to manage teacher workload in English schools
1970s working conditions in the 2020s
The Eduication Support Commission on Teacher Retention, supported by Public First, has published its final report on the state of the teaching profession in England’s secondary schools in 2023. Highlight results include: 78% of teachers said they would be likely to leave the profession if they were offered a job in another sector which promised … Continue reading 1970s working conditions in the 2020s