String of schools featured by Education Uncovered have high teacher turnover rates, official DfE data show

Scrap the “dual science route” at GCSE, Association for Science Education proposes, in broad-ranging critique of curriculum and assessment regimes

20 June 2025

Education Uncovered is looking ahead to the publication of the government’s final Curriculum and Assessment Review report, in the autumn, by covering responses from subject associations. Detailed subject-by-subject findings did not appear in the interim report, published in March. So it seems important to document what subject associations have been saying, especially as some of their conclusions appear to contradict the review’s overall pledge of an “evolution, not revolution” approach to reform.
In the first, then, of what I hope will be an ongoing series, I report below on the submission of the Association for Science Education.

Teachers at super-strict academy told to hand out 25 detentions a week - whatever their pupils’ behaviour

18 June 2025

Staff also told to award reward points - but to "sanction" pupils who fail to "track the teacher," or who slump at their desks

Three children, who spent nearly 1,000 hours in “isolation” in single academic year, at centre of legal challenge against multi-academy trust

11 June 2025

Gorse Academy Trust's isolation policy under detailed scrutiny during judicial review hearing in Leeds.

Behaviour management policies, with big implications for children, need to be subject to rigorous evaluation

10 June 2025

Do "sweat the small stuff" behaviour policies actually work, in the long run, for pupils? The fact that we seem to lack a firm, detailed evidential base for policies which have big impacts on pupils is of concern.