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ASCL Cymru comment on wider opening of schools in Wales

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Health and safety
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on first day of wider opening of schools

  • Primary
  • Safeguarding
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on go ahead for wider opening of schools

ASCL comment on scientific evidence

  • Health and safety
  • Government
  • Coronavirus

Taking kindness seriously

  • Ethics
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health
  • Diversity
  • Coronavirus

ASCL position on reopening of schools

Lost Learning: Educational gaps caused by coronavirus

  • Leadership
  • Teaching
  • Curriculum
  • Planning
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on talks with scientific advisers over reopening of schools

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on the reopening of schools

  • Leadership
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Government
  • Coronavirus

ASCL Cymru response to Welsh education minister’s statement on schools reopening

  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Planning
  • Government
  • Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Leadership in lockdown (Powys)

  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Parents
  • Coronavirus

ASCL responds to EPI school catch-up plan

  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Pupil Premium
  • Coronavirus

ASCL responds to PAC report on SEND system

  • Funding
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • SEND

How will all our children and young people re-engage with school?

  • Leadership
  • Inclusion
  • Teaching
  • Pastoral
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Parents
  • Mental Health
  • Coronavirus

ASCL response to Sutton Trust poll on students’ A-level concerns

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • Examinations
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • Coronavirus

ASCL Cymru response to First Minister on school reopening

  • Leadership
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Government

School and College Closures: Supporting vulnerable pupils with EAL 

  • Preferred Supplier
  • Inclusion
  • Curriculum
  • Diversity
  • Disability
  • EAL
  • Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Leadership in lockdown (North Wales)

  • Wales
  • Pastoral
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Planning
  • Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Leadership in lockdown (Sheffield)

  • Leadership
  • Ethics
  • Planning
  • Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Leadership in lockdown (Swansea)

  • Leadership
  • Ethics
  • Planning
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on EEF remote learning review

  • Teaching
  • Learning
  • Curriculum
  • Parents
  • Lesson planning
  • Resources
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on package to support online learning

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  • Learning
  • Curriculum
  • Parents
  • Lesson planning
  • Government
  • Coronavirus

ASCL Northern Ireland comment on exam grading plans

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  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • Northern Ireland
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on primary school national offer day

  • Primary
  • Key Stage 1
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  • Coronavirus

ASCL response to Sutton Trust poll on teaching children at home

  • Parents
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on grading of vocational qualifications

  • Post-16
  • Examinations
  • BTEC
  • T Levels
  • Ofqual
  • Coronavirus

Ethical Leadership and the Head of Centre Sign-Off

  • Leadership
  • Ethics
  • Assessment
  • Professional Standards
  • Examinations
  • Ofqual
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on extra support for schools

  • Funding
  • Business Leadership
  • Financial planning
  • Finance
  • Income
  • Resources
  • Coronavirus

Ghost College

  • Leadership
  • Post-16
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on A-level students still heading to university

ASCL comment on Ofqual plan for grading A-levels and GCSEs

  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • Ofqual
  • Coronavirus

ASCL Cymru comments on Qualifications Wales announcement

  • Assessment
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on national voucher scheme for free school meals

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Parents
  • Coronavirus

Ofsted must do more to build faith in complaints system

ASCL publishes guidance on teacher-assessed grades

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • Marking
  • Coronavirus

Education unions call for ‘mutual respect, understanding and support’ joint covid-19 advice

  • Safeguarding
  • Mental Health
  • Coronavirus

Emergency provision in schools update

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  • Coronavirus

ASCL comment on plans over cancelled exams

  • Assessment
  • Key Stage 2
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  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE
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  • Ofqual
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ASCL response to key worker list

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ASCL General Secretary Q&A on school closures

ASCL Cymru responds to decision to close schools in Wales

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ASCL response to Education Secretary’s announcement on coronavirus

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  • GCSE
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  • Early years
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ASCL response to suspension of inspections

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  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Government

Meeting with Education Secretary on coronavirus emergency

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  • Parents
  • Planning
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  • Government
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Statement on meeting with Education Secretary

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ASCL calls for halt to school inspections during coronavirus emergency

  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Coronavirus

Geoff Barton's speech to ASCL Annual Conference 2020

School leaders say Ofsted requires improvement

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Address by ASCL President Rachael Warwick to Annual Conference 2020

School leaders call for GCSE reforms

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • Key Stage 3
  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE

ASCL response to the Budget statement

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  • Post-16
  • FE
  • Budget
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Accidental CEOs and the need for deliberate practice

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  • Governance
  • MAT
  • Trusts
  • School Improvement

ASCL comment on EPI report on technical education

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  • Post-16

A four-step plan in roof maintenance for educational facilities

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ASCL comment on national offer day

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ASCL responds to EPI report on teacher shortages

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Engage, Motivate and Retain the Very Best in the Profession: Devising new approaches

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Government plan treats nearly 2,900 'outstanding' schools and colleges unfairly

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ASCL comment on HMCI school funding blog

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Education unions criticise government's "short-change" pay proposals - joint press release

A case for leadership diversity

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ASCL warns school funding boost will be eaten up by government promises and rising costs

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  • Budget
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Senior Leaders: Five key areas of focus when managing exams in your centre

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  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • Ofqual

ASCL comment on school performance tables

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  • Key Stage 4
  • Performance Tables
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ASCL comment on government announcement on minimum funding levels for schools

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ASCL comment on predicted fall in ‘conditional unconditional offers’

ASCL leader calls for performance table reform to tackle off-rolling and gaming

ASCL response to report on children's mental health

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  • Health and Wellbeing
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ASCL starts industrial action on Isle of Man

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  • Isle of Man

ASCL comment on teacher autonomy report

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  • Teaching
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  • CPD

Managing exam entries in your centre

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  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • BTEC
  • T Levels
  • Ofqual

ASCL Cymru comment on revised curriculum

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  • Learning
  • Curriculum
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Curriculum

Raising Aspirations for Disadvantaged Students: Examples from around the UK

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  • Learning
  • Post-16
  • FE
  • Collaboration
  • Careers

ASCL comment on gender gap in foreign languages

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  • Curriculum
  • MFL
  • Key Stage 3
  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE
  • A Levels

ASCL comment on SRMA pilot programme

  • Funding
  • Business Leadership
  • Financial planning
  • Budget
  • Finance
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Girls in STEM

  • Inclusion
  • Curriculum
  • Post-16
  • FE
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • T Levels

ASCL response to HMCI’s annual report

  • Primary
  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Key Stage 2
  • SEND
  • Off-rolling

LGBTQ+ in education

  • Leadership
  • Inclusion
  • Pastoral
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health

ASCL calls for fair pay deal for all teachers

  • Employment
  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Financial planning

ASCL members on Isle of Man vote for industrial action

  • Conditions
  • Pay
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Isle of Man

ASCL comment on free period products

ASCL comment on EPI early years workforce report

ASCL comment on EPI report on CAMHS

  • Funding
  • Pastoral
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Resources
  • Mental Health
  • SEND

ASCL comment on plan to remove outstanding exemption

  • Post-16
  • FE
  • Primary
  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • Ofsted
  • Key Stage 3
  • Key Stage 4

What does diverse leadership mean to you?

  • Leadership
  • Employment
  • Inclusion
  • Business Leadership
  • Diversity

ASCL comment on Queen's Speech

  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • Financial planning
  • Government

A look back at NFER research in the past year

  • Leadership
  • Jobs
  • Employment
  • Post-16
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Data
  • Workload
  • T Levels

ASCL comment on reappointment of Education Secretary

  • Leadership
  • Government

ASCL comment on rise in unconditional offers

  • Assessment
  • Post-16
  • A Levels

School leadership is getting more diverse - but not quickly enough

  • Leadership
  • Jobs
  • Equalities
  • Inclusion
  • Teaching
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Professional Development

ASCL NI writes to NI party leaders over 'bleak financial situation' in schools

  • Leadership
  • Funding
  • Resources
  • Mental Health
  • Government
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on NFER report on T levels

  • Funding
  • Teaching
  • Post-16
  • Examinations
  • BTEC
  • T Levels

ASCL comment on EPI analysis of education manifestos

  • Leadership
  • Government

ASCL comment on Labour education plans

  • Leadership
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Financial planning
  • Finance
  • School Improvement
  • Resources

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust report on GCSE reforms

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • Key Stage 4
  • GCSE

Do the Party Pledges Cut It?

  • Funding
  • Financial planning
  • Budget
  • Finance
  • Government

ASCL comment on PISA results

  • Assessment
  • Examinations
  • Mental Health

ASCL comment on PISA results in Wales

  • Assessment
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Examinations
  • International
  • Performance Tables

ASCL comment on Conservative Party plans for Ofsted

ASCL NI President praises resilience of school leaders

  • Membership
  • CPD
  • Northern Ireland

ASCL comment on UCAS end of cycle report 2019

ASCL collaborates with the IoE on a new project to improve teachers' job satisfaction and retention

  • Leadership
  • Projects
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  • Conditions
  • Employment
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Workload

Days in the Life of ICFP: Comparing notes

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  • Curriculum
  • Curriculum
  • Lesson planning
  • Timetabling

ASCL response to the Conservative Party Manifesto

ASCL supports WorthLess? campaign letter

  • Leadership
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  • Budget
  • Finance
  • Parents

School Cuts welcomes Labour's 'once in a generation' funding pledge

  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • FE
  • Primary
  • Financial planning
  • Budget
  • Government

ASCL comment on Lib Dem school funding plans

Education unions call for urgent pay increase to tackle recruitment and retention crisis in the teaching profession

  • Jobs
  • Employment
  • Pay
  • Funding
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • STRB
  • Financial planning

"Nothing worth achieving comes easy"

ASCL comment on Guernsey’s new education model

ASCL comment on Labour education plans

ASCL comment on EPI further education report

  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • FE
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • T Levels

ASCL General Election manifesto: Don’t use education as a political football

ASCL comment on Ofqual decision over GCSE French and German

ASCL comment on UTC report

  • Funding
  • Post-16
  • FE

ASCL comment on APPG knife crime report

ASCL comment on Education Committee SEND report

Curriculum Change: A new paradigm of progress

ASCL Cymru comment on teacher pay award

ASCL comment on secondary school performance tables

More than 16,500 schools losing out under new cash allocations for April 2020

ASCL comment on teacher workload survey

ASCL comment on unexplained pupil exits

Exam Malpractice Commission

  • Assessment
  • Accountability
  • Examinations
  • GCSE
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels
  • SEND
  • BTEC
  • T Levels
  • Ofqual

School Funding: 4 in 5 schools worse off under Government spending plans, finds new analysis

Blog: Days in the Life of ICFP, Part Two

ASCL comment on IFS education funding report

ASCL comment on UCL teacher workload study

ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s call over unconditional offers

  • Post-16
  • A Levels
  • AS Levels

ASCL comment on SEND report

Forgotten Third Commission recommends scrapping GCSE English Language

ASCL comment on report into exam malpractice

Blog: Days in the Life of ICFP, Part One

ASCL comment on spending round: the job is not done on education funding

ASCL comment on teacher pay announcement

ASCL comment on 16-19 funding announcement

ASCL response to Prime Minister’s schools funding announcement

ASCL comment on leaked plans for schools

ASCL comment on GCSE results

ASCL Cymru comment on GCSE results in Wales

ASCL Northern Ireland comment on GCSE results

ASCL comment on changes to BTEC Tech Award grade boundaries

ASCL comment on A-level results 2019

Review urged as A-level entries in English plummet

ASCL response to Labour plans on university admissions

ASCL response to EPI report on disadvantage gap

Time for a sea change in education funding

ASCL's priorities for the new Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education

ASCL comment on Education Committee funding report

ASCL comment on teacher pay award

ASCL comment on skills tests

ASCL comment on university applications

ASCL comment on Sutton Trust recruitment gap report

ASCL comment on SATs results

Nearly 120,000 more secondary pupils in large classes

Retention rates worsen for new teachers

ASCL comment on ‘Elitist Britain’

ASCL comment on TALIS report

ASCL comment on school place offers

Ending BTECs could lead to students dropping out of education

ASCL response to letter on school food

ASCL sets out vital education issues to Conservative leadership candidates

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