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Issue 10.11

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The Right Combination – Education And Skills Survey 2016

This CBI report shows that businesses don’t believe existing careers support and experience is giving young people what they need. Around half of businesses are not satisfied with school leavers’ work experience (56%) and their skills in communication (50%), analysis (50%) and self-management (48%). Leadership Briefing 11.01(121)

  • 19 Aug 2016
  • 24mins
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Northern Schools: Putting Education At The Heart Of The Northern Powerhouse

There is growing recognition that improving schools is a crucial component of efforts to create a ‘northern powerhouse’. The North has the potential to build on its burgeoning economic strengths, generating prosperity that will benefit the whole of the country. This IPPR report looks at the gap in attainment between the north of England and the South. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 23 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Primary Member SATs Survey

This NUT Survey paints a troubling picture of the chaotic, inappropriate and limiting nature of the Government’s assessment regime in primary schools. All figures are from the results of an NUT survey of 6,613 primary school teachers and head teachers. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 23 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Talk Of The Town Whole School Approach To Speech, Language And Communication

This research by The Communication Trust demonstrates the powerful role of professional development for furthering whole school approaches to speech, language and communication support. Training sessions and ongoing mentoring for staff provided by Speech and Language Therapists, were shown in this research to successfully improve staff expertise and confidence in assessing and developing speech, language and communication, alongside boosting pupils’ speech, language and communication skills. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 23 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Balancing The Books: The Challenges Facing Schools And Academies

One in seven schools are still not budgeting effectively, despite more than a third of schools and academies suffering from a budget deficit in the past three years. With increasing costs, uncertainties over future funding with the ever-present pressure on school leaders to deliver high standards all having a significant effect on budgeting. This new report by HCSS Education looks at the challenges facing schools and academies, financial strategies and support in place, why deficits occur and what tends to lie behind this, when it happens. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 23 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Digital Skills Crisis

The Science and Technology Committee has published a report warning that the UK risks being left behind if the Government does not take more action to address the digital skills crisis. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 17 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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I Wasn’t Sure It Was Normal To Watch It

This report by the NSPCC and Middlesex University is a quantitative and qualitative examination of the impact of online pornography on the values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of children and young people. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 17 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Reading for Pleasure

This new research from Oxford University Press reveals that more than half of UK primary school teachers (56%) say that they don’t have enough time to share and talk about books in the classroom, and that more than a third (36%) believe that having more time to dedicate to reading and to books would make the biggest difference to promoting a love of reading in their school. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 17 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Pupil Premium Survey

This survey by the Education Endowment Foundation and Sutton Trust shows that increasing numbers of schools are using their pupil premium funding to offset budget cuts elsewhere. Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 17 Jun 2016
  • 24mins
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Data Protection Act – breaches, compliance and use of privacy notices

The importance of Data Protection Act (‘DPA’) compliance cannot be overstated. On 26 April 2016, the Department for Education (DfE) published updated suggested forms of privacy notice, formerly known as a fair processing notice, for schools and local authorities to issue to individuals including staff, parents and pupils about the collection of personal data. Here, Morris Hill and Ken Slade take a closer look at the issue... Leadership Briefings 10.11(119)

  • 10 Jun 2016
  • 24mins