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Teacher Strikes – Explaining Union Apathy (IMHO)
Looking back on my near 20 years of paying union subs and working with unions in leadership I can think of a few reasons for apparent apathy in the teacher strikes voting.
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Secondary Accountability Measures 2022
Originally posted as a LinkedIn article, this looks at the publication of the 2022 Secondary accountability measures. The first such results published for 3 years.
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The School Funding Crunch (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/school-funding-crunch/ Introduction Balancing academy and MAT budgets has never been more challenging than it is now. This month’s Data Trends looks at the factors affecting budgets, and what MAT leaders can do in the world of data, curriculum & IT. …
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2022 GCSE Exam Results (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/exam-results-2022/. Introduction Last week saw GCSE/BTEC results published to join the A-Level results. Today’s news summary rounds up links to in-depth analysis from around the sector. A-Levels Recap The CAGs and TAGs process through 2020 and 2021 saw huge grade inflation…
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How to Analyse Your School Exam Results (Data Trends)
Originally published for Assembly Data Trends series: https://assembly.education/how-to-analyse-exam-results/ It’s been three whole years since we’ve had exam results in England, and what three years it has been! This issue of Data Trends provides 7 top tips on how to analyse and report on your school or MAT exam results this Summer, from our former Vice…
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A-Level Results 2022 – Regional Analysis
Originally posted as an article on LinkedIn this post analyses the first release of A-Level results in August 2022, with some evidence of Covid related differences.
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How to Monitor Attendance in the New Academic Year (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/monitoring-attendance-new-academic-year/. Introduction Data Trends last looked at attendance back in January. Since then, there have been developments in this area that school leaders should be aware of. In this blog, industry expert Dan Stucke looks at changes in attendance management that…
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Covid lost learning quantified
The first genuine pandemic affected exam results are in, as schools (belatedly – well done Capita!) received their KS2 SATs results today. And perhaps unsurprisingly the impact of the lost learning of the past 3 years is clear. There have been significant drops in the proportion of 11 year olds meeting expected standards in Maths…
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Safeguarding Data Analytics Best Practice Summer 2022 (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/data-trends-safeguarding/. Introduction In this article, our Analytics expert Dan Stucke looks at the current trends in safeguarding in schools in the UK, including the publication of “Keeping Children Safe in Education” 2022 (KCSIE), discussing good practice in using data to…
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Failing Our Most Vulnerable – Thoughts on FFT Repeat Suspensions & Exclusions Report
FFT have just published an analysis of repeat suspensions and exclusions across the life of students who started primary school in 2008 & 2009. The headline news is that both suspensions and exclusions are heavily weighted towards certain ethnic groups, those of the different Black, Gypsy/Roma & Irish heritage are around twice as likely to have been…
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Opportunity For All – What do MAT Data Leaders Need To Know? Part 2 (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/implications-for-mat-data-leaders-part-2/ Last month saw the long-awaited publication of the Government’s education white paper ‘Opportunity for all‘. In this second post picking apart the white paper from the point of view of a MAT or school data leader, I look at…