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OFSTED CREATES TOOLKIT TO PROMOTE PARENT VIEW Ofsted has produced a toolkit for schools to help them promote Parent View, its online questionnaire for parents to give their views on schools. The toolkit includes a leaflet and poster, as well as tips and case studies and is designed to help schools encourage parents to complete the Parent View questionnaire throughout the year and during an inspection. The Ofsted website also features a video demonstrating how to register for the questionnaire and set up alerts about schools.
Apprentices Mia Claydon, 17 from Suffolk, and Alistair Willoughby, 20 from Baldock, were given the rare opportunity to spend a day in chef Tom Kerridge’s two-Michelin-starred kitchen at the Hand and Flowers in Marlow as part of National Apprenticeships Week (11 – 15 March)
EDUCATION ‘HELD BACK’ BY OUTDATED PRACTICES Research reveals the education sector is suffering from out-of-date working practices more than any other industry, as it struggles to keep up with the pace of technology-led change. Eighty-eight per cent of those surveyed within educational institutions across Europe by Ricoh said the way they work is out of date and prevents them from being as effective and efficient as they could be, which could have a significant impact on their ability to effectively deliver high quality education services.
They said...
From the headteacher to staff to the pupils, an aspiration to excel must be at the heart of every aspect of the school – from staff appraisals to pupil targets. This means creating a culture of no excuses and challenging perhaps well-meaning attitudes that a child from a particular estate or family is handcuffed to a destiny of low achievement
ASCL president Mike Griffiths at the association’s conference on ‘Closing the Gap’ in Birmingham last month
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www.edexec.co.uk / april 2013
STATS & FACTS
Performance-related injury 71%
of schools do not have a defibrillator, raising concerns with the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) that pupils and staff are left at risk of dying from heart failure without the life-saving device
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