This week in education:

✅ Tackling school absence (NFER)

✅ The introduction of T levels (National Audit Office)

✅ The DfE's review of the NPQ framework.

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Edu. news this week ⤵️

📉 Proportion of students sitting multiple non-EBacc subjects down 50% (FFT)

🚀 HEPI proposes new minister for men and boys

📋 Excluded students 2x as likely as suspended students to commit serious violence (London's VRU)

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This week in education news... ⤵️

✅ Key takeaways from Becky Francis' interim report.

✅ Solutions to the 'school engagement crisis' (The Difference & IPPR).

✅ The link between attainment, absenteeism and disadvantage (EPI).

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This week's edu research... ⤵️
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1. Half primary teachers think up to 20% of children have speech and language issues (GL Assessment).🗣️

2. Boys’ performance jumped above girls (Timss).📈

3. £9.2b of pupil premium spending untracked by govt (PAC).💰

This week's edu research ⤵️

1. More support needed to challenge online misogyny (University of York).

2. EMA scheme could have harmed employment potential (IFS).

3. Schools urged to help keep young people out of custody (Children's Commissioner).

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1. Govt. should 'incentivise' schools developing of soft skills in EY (NFER). 🌟

2. Ofsted performance measures based on amount playtime (Raising the Nation Play Commission). 🛝

3. Parentkind's Annual National Parent Survey. 💭

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This week in edu research:

1. OCR calls for a new short-course maths GCSE.🔢

2. 1/4 of heads lack the funding/ facilities to offer arts (Arts & Minds).👩‍🎨

3. Urgent reform of the SEND system needed to ensure financially sustainability (CIPFA).💸

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This week's education research⤵️

1. Students suspended from primary should be assessed for SEN (EPI).

2. Could selective schools be bad for mental health? (@ioe.bsky.social)

3. Programme helping pupils to 'normalise' emotions shows promise (Anna Freud).

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This week in education research:
1. 28% of children starting Reception 'incorrectly use books' (Kindred2).
2. Poverty & SEN key influences on attainment (Durham & Birmingham universities).
3. Nearly 0.5 million fines for term-time holidays (DfE).

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This week in education research:

1. Schools built under a PFI contract are financially worse off (niesrorg.bsky.social).
2. 1/3 of UK young adults can't name any concentration camps where the Holocaust happened.
3. Primary suspensions for racist abuse up 220% (DfE).

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This week in education research:

1. Headteachers warned of 'difficult choices' as rising costs threaten to outpace funding. 💸

2. Survey shows schools are increasingly using AI. 📈

3. Research into how schools are using genAI. 👩‍🏫

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