The Education Brief: Saturday 4 May 2024 - Top stories include:

• The government’s scrapping of the Now Teach scheme, sparks an outcry
• DfE ‘actively looking’ at reforms to £10k special schools place funding
• DFE advises all schools create a bomb threat checklist
• England scraps 50% rule on faith school admissions

This week’s deep dive:

• The future of safeguarding in schools

We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!

Watching - https://youtu.be/I3CcXED2EDU?feature=shared

Listening - https://radiolab.org/podcast/memory-and-forgetting

Reading - https://achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2022/12/14/the-ratio-lens/

AI Tool - https://www.thenational.academy/blog/ai-tools-for-teachers-are-just-the-start

Music by Slo Pony