The Education Brief: Saturday 10 May 2025 - Top stories include:

• Ofsted may delay its controversial school report card inspections until 2026.

• The government is shortening the postgraduate teaching apprenticeship from 12 to nine months.

• Funding for England’s acclaimed maths hubs will drop by 20% this September.

• 218 'stuck' schools will receive support from the newly expanded RISE teams.

This week’s deep dive: 

• School Absence: What the past can teach the present

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

Watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6r8ZxJeig

Listening - https://uk.bettshow.com/edtech-unwrapped

Reading - https://www.isospartnership.com/blog/strengthening-professional-accountability-working-with-local-education-partnerships

AI Tool - https://www.anthropic.com/education

IfG Report link: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-04/School-absence-innovation-lessons-last-labour-government.pdf

Music by Slo Pony