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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Excl: According to DfE calculations, schools won't need any extra teachers from next month until 2029. This is despite teachers taking on new responsibilities for SEND, a curriculum overhaul, & the govt's ever-shifting policy to hire 6.5k new teachers. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Just four months after the DfE cut multiple subject bursaries, the impact is already starting to show. Subjects fear that it has not just led to lower recruitment but created a wider sense that subjects now have to compete to prove their worth. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The academy trust sector's underlying financial position is "fragile", according to a new report. 📉“Challenges such as rising costs and continuing uncertainty are already weighing on confidence and limiting trusts’ ability to plan, invest, and grow." www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

One to watch on Wednesday: The Lords will be voting on amendments in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - including this one about restricting social media access for under-16s 📲

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Great data piece from @jabedahmed.bsky.social : 💷Inner London teachers are paid up to 17% more 🏘️ Avg inner London house prices are more than 10x a non-London teacher’s annual salary 🗺️Find out how much you'll be paid as a teacher across the country... and how much housing prices are.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📲 Excl: Teachers are overwhelmingly supportive of social media restrictions for under 18s 70% now strongly agree, up from 62% in 2024 and 49% in 2021. Primary teachers are also more supportive. Whether the govt goes ahead with a full ban, or introduces restrictions, it appears teachers will back.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Schools will need to find savings from their budgets to deliver the pay award, according to the DfE’s pay review submission. Leaders will need to be “proactive” about making the most of their budgets to achieve this (in case they weren’t already…)

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

NEW: Bridget Phillipson has delayed the schools white paper to early next year.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If leaders pitch at a level that inspectors think is too high, they’ll be worried that this will reflect badly upon them, says @pepediiasio.bsky.social "But if they are too conservative in their evaluation, they’ll be concerned that this will become self-fulfilling."

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

McKinnell’s resignation letter below - no indication what role she was offered, but interesting that she chose to resign instead.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Contracts Finder looking interesting this morning

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Inclusion advisor Tom Rees said that the expert advisory group on inclusion that he chairs is continuing. The group will be looking at how the system could offer “consistent and higher quality advice” to teachers and schools.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

On a curriculum and assessment panel at the Festival of Education, Big Education CEO Liz Robinson said that she doesn’t understand the govt’s aim to get high and rising standards without a universal way to measure success at the end of KS4.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Ofqual chief Sir Ian Bauckham said that people “often suspect that, because the proportions of students getting any particular grade look fairly constant from one year to the next, that there is some kind of back room fix to this.” “Let me be absolutely clear, there isn't.”

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Sir Martyn Oliver tells the Festival of Education that he would have had an EHCP had they existed when he was a child. Instead, he had to rely upon a “few standout teachers” to support him.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

You can now get all of your trusted Tes Magazine news, analysis and features on our official app! Download on: 📲 ios apple.co/3FzfSYh 📲 Android bit.ly/45xsB8d

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It was great to chat to ITV News London this evening about the challenges facing schools with funding pressures and falling pupil numbers. A very relevant conversation today, as DfE data showed a decrease of more than 50,000 pupils across all schools in the past year.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Emma Hollis, CEO of the National Association of School-Based Teachers, tells the #SAAShow that there is too much pressure on teacher training to “sort out” the sector’s challenges. “We can’t be constantly firefighting and expecting CPD to solve the problems we’re facing.”

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Children’s commissioner Rachel de Souza addresses audiences at her inaugural Festival of Childhood. “We have a crisis developing in childhood,” Dame Rachel says, which is characterised by “loneliness, anger, sadness”.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

General secretary @pepediiasio.bsky.social tells #ASCL2025 that the last thing the sector needs is an inspection system that “intensifies the pressures they face”. “And yet incredibly that’s exactly what is being proposed.” “We support the principle of report cards - but not like this.”

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A good crowd for @mmulholland.bsky.social at #ASCL2025: “One of the challenges we have at the moment is defining inclusion as static.” She tells delegates not to think about how to get ‘exemplary’ in a potential inclusion rating.

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver tells #ASCL2025 that he knows some of the sector have “concerns” about the inspectorate’s report card proposals. He said the plans “will reduce the pressure” that leaders feel about inspection.

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