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Lucas Cumiskey

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Senior reporter @SchoolsWeek, covering Ofsted, ITT and the teacher workforce [email protected] @ https://t.co/MAhoDDIDmB

Joined November 2016
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Seems very sensible given the reforms introduced in September have already changed - and providers still had no idea on how these changes would have been inspected Follows our scoop that talks to delay inspections were underway schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-in-talk…

🔎 Exclusive: Ofsted inspections of initial teacher training providers are set to be postponed for this academic year, Schools Week understands buff.ly/3B0QJn2



🔎Exclusive: Ofsted inspections of initial teacher training providers are set to be postponed for this academic year, Schools Week understands schoolsweek.co.uk/teacher-traini…


⚠️Leaked proposals for new Ofsted report cards look too confusing for parents and could spawn a 'whole new host of issues', leaders have warned 🐔The plans have been likened to the Nando’s fast-food outlet’s 'peri-ometer' for how spicy its chicken is schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-numberw…


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📋 Schools are set to be judged on a sliding scale from ‘exemplary’ to ‘causing concern’ against 10 areas including teaching, achievement, inclusion and preparation for next steps, proposals for new report cards shared with leaders this week reveal schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-propose…


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🗣️ Exclusive: Headteachers of council maintained schools are launching a collective group to give them a 'voice' in policy-making after being 'marginalised' by the Conservatives buff.ly/40N8AYP


Exclusive: The government has scrapped an 'excessive' requirement that mentors of trainee teachers undertake 20-hours of training with 'immediate effect', following complaints from school leaders schoolsweek.co.uk/excessive-20-h…


Lucas Cumiskey Reposted

Great to sit down with @bphillipsonMP at @CSTvoice ⏪ She’s ‘open to considering’ allowing struggling academies to return to councils 🏫 Ministers looking at letting LAs open schools again 💷 Warns trusts will have to ‘justify’ high CEO pay schoolsweek.co.uk/phillipson-ope…


👀Sir Martyn Oliver has said some trust leaders are 'putting pressure on inspectors and making the inspection process more adversarial'. schoolsweek.co.uk/mat-ceos-makin…


⚠️Schools in the poorest areas struggle to recruit teachers, spend more on supply teachers and have to pay out more for basic supplies for pupils, new analysis that reveals the full scale of the challenge for leaders running disadvantaged schools shows schoolsweek.co.uk/investigation-…


Staff employed by schools on zero-hours contracts – such as exam invigilators and some supply teachers – may need to be given fixed-term contracts and entitled to pension schemes under new employment legislation, lawyers have warned schoolsweek.co.uk/employment-rig…


A senior leader of a school that featured in the Educating Greater Manchester TV series asked staff for an update on 'removing some of our worst-performing year 11s' before the census 'so they don’t count on results', a TRA panel has heard schoolsweek.co.uk/worst-performi…


🏫 Former schools minister @GullisJonathan has suggested schools don’t want to employ him because of his political views, saying it is a 'damning indictment on the profession' schoolsweek.co.uk/gullis-suggest…


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She says 'that starts' with the primary school breakfast club manifesto policy. A pilot will launch in April (story from @lucas_cumiskey) 'This is an investment in our young people, an investment in reducing child poverty, an investment in our economy' schoolsweek.co.uk/breakfast-club…


Lucas Cumiskey Reposted

At Labour conference fringe on accountability and inspection. Hearing from @DanielKebedeNEU @PaulWhiteman6 @pepediiasio @PatrickR_NASUWT and Professor Julia Waters, chaired by @miss_mcinerney

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Exclusive: Ofsted stands accused of 'running away' with the development of new report cards, with union leaders calling for the Department for Education to take charge amid fears the watchdog is 'reforming itself' schoolsweek.co.uk/leaders-fear-o…


💷This interesting development will see a grammar school open three fee-paying 'affiliate' schools overseas, entering a lucrative market dominated by the independent sector schoolsweek.co.uk/warning-over-g…


Scoop: Teaching assistants will be able to train as SEND specialists through a new apprenticeship that could also open up a new route to becoming a teacher It's hoped this will better equip TAs to deal with the explosion of pupils with additional needs schoolsweek.co.uk/new-apprentice…


❌Schools that receive a full inspection this year have been banned from using Ofsted judgment logos after overall effectiveness grades were scrapped schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-logos-b…


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