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Lucy Powell's department says a 4.9-point cut in employer pension contributions for support staff will let schools cover teachers' 3.5% pay rise. NASUWT says the saving was already built into school budgets, so heads will have to find the money for the award elsewhere.
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Economists at Sussex and Exeter found an Ofsted downgrade cut a school's first-choice applications by 11%, over twice the roughly 5% gain from an upgrade. With schools funded at about £5,000 a pupil, the grade puts money at stake, though the study found enrolment moved less than applications did.
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Ofqual found that 9% of teachers in England see senior leadership as primarily responsible for cyber security, while 46% name the IT team. The regulator says backups and response plans belong to leaders, a duty most staff assign elsewhere.
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Manchester's correlates are sharp about which pupils get suspended and quiet about sequence, because the survey answers and the suspension records come from the same academic year, which leaves belonging as plausibly a casualty as a cause.
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Medly AI's $8m seed took the headlines. The government research contract running to 31 March 2027 is the document edtech product teams should actually read.
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