Tuesday 3 May - Top stories include:
- Female, non-white and part-time staff are significantly less likely to be promoted to headteacher roles, according to new research from the DfE.
- The cost of the SEND system has hit a total of £1.3 billion this year as the places crisis bites and flaws in the system become more visible.
- The government has called issues with ECF “teething problems” and said they can be fixed with “tweaks” by ministers.
- Recently-appointed chair of the Social Mobility Commission came under fire for gendered remarks about girls taking A-level physics.
- Ofsted published its new 5-year strategy.
This week’s deep dive:
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30LjUmzOE9s
Listening - https://freshedpodcast.com/hastedt-meinck/
Reading - https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/fall/feature/one-and-the-many