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Advice July 2017
The School Teachers’ Review Body 27th Report: 2017 was published 10 July 2017 and contains the recommendations on how to apply the pay award for teachers, due to be implemented from September. The DfE has also published a draft revised copy of the STPCD.
Advice February 2017
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund is a three-year investment worth £75 million, which will provide funding for professional development programmes for teachers and school leaders.
Advice July 2015
The Secretary of State Nicky Morgan has formally accepted the STRB’s latest recommendations.
Leader article December 2014
Andy Buck looks at building trust, harnessing talent to the right task and other elements that go towards building a great senior team.
Guidance paper September 2016
This guidance paper is relevant to all staff in all schools and colleges. It offers information and guidance when considering the safeguarding of staff in their use of social networking sites (SNS), such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, both at school and personally.
Guidance paper December 2015
This guidance paper is for headteachers, principals, senior leaders and governors/trustees in maintained schools in England.
Leader article May 2014
Worries about an increasing workload are now being cited by business managers as a key source of anxiety. Val Andrew has some tips for the stressed.
Advice January 2018
The DfE’s leadership equality and diversity (E&D) fund supports schools to develop local solutions that help teachers from under-represented groups to progress into leadership. Funding is available for schools to co-ordinate school-led projects in their region.
Leader article July 2015
Pay rises could push you over the tax relief limit and into trouble with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) so check your position, warns Stephen Casey.
Guidance paper November 2016
This guidance contains important information for all members in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) or the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), regardless of age or proximity to retirement. This paper is for the personal use of ASCL members only.
Leader article September 2015
Changes to the Lifetime Allowances limit are likely to mean more of us paying tax on our pensions, says Stephen Casey.
Advice January 2015
The DfE has published a new set of headteacher standards for England, titled National Standards for Excellence for Headteachers. These are non-mandatory standards intended to be suitable for use across all types of schools and colleges.
Guidance paper August 2014
ASCL Pay and Conditions Specialist Sara Ford has produced a summary of the main changes to the STPCD since 2014
Advice November 2015
NASBM has launched a new set of Professional Standards for School Business Managers. ASCL has been supporting the development of these standards as part of a wider stakeholder group.
Advice September 2014
In line with the recommendations in the STRB’s 24th Report, the STPCD 14 has had a 1% uplift applied to the statutory minima and maxima of all pay ranges. However the document only includes discretionary reference points for the main pay range and leadership group pay range.
Advice September 2015
ASCL has established an Equalities Network which aims to empower members to connect, coach and build mutually supportive programmes, thus providing all school and college leaders with opportunities to develop at every stage of their careers.
Advice February 2018
As the rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 3% in the year to September 2017, the salary bands for contribution rates for members will increase by 3% with effect from 1 April 2018.
Advice March 2014
Amendment to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003.
Advice September 2016
The new application round for National Leaders of Education is now open until 5pm on Friday 23 September.
October 2014
ASCL’s position is that we need a more sophisticated understanding and definition of unnecessary workload.
Advice April 2019
The DfE has launched a free web service, Teaching Vacancies, for schools to advertise their vacancies.
Advice August 2017
The Government published the recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) on teachers’ pay for 2017-18 on 10 July and indicated its intention, following formal consultation, to implement them with effect from 1 September 2017.
Advice February 2015
In response to the Secretary of State’s 25th Remit to the STRB asking them to consider the arrangements for the 2015 pay award, ASCL has submitted evidence calling for a fully funded pay award above the government’s proposed 1 per cent.
Leader article March 2016
Pension rule changes mean a later retirement for more teachers, so start planning for it now, warns Stephen Casey.
Leader article May 2014
As more schools struggle to fill headship vacancies, business managers are successfully stepping up to leadership. Dorothy Lepkowska reports.
Leader article June 2016
The evolution of school business leaders is well documented but anomalies remain when it comes to pay, a situation that’s inequitable, uncertain and lacking consistency of approach, says Val Andrew.
Advice March 2016
ASCL has an arrangement with Pattinson Brewer solicitors, who have offices in Bristol, London and York to provide a personal injury service to members.
Advice February 2019
The role of the Chartered Educational Assessor (CEA) is to quality assure the assessment policies, procedures and processes that schools, colleges, or MATs use. This CEA training programme supports professionals engaged in assessment across multiple subject contexts.
Advice June 2018
The University of Stirling is calling on teachers to complete a survey that will help inform a new study aiming to understand factors relevant to teachers’ enjoyment of work, response to pressures and possible disengagement from work.
Advice March 2019
The teachers’ pay award for 2018/19 is to be funded until March 2020. The employers’ contributions to teachers’ pensions are due to increase from the current 16.48% to c23.6%, with effect from 1 September 2019. The government has committed to funding this increase for the financial year 2019/20.
Advice January 2017
NCTL is also inviting school partnerships to become a Returners Engagement Programme pilot school. The programme is available to former teachers wishing to return to mathematics, physics, or a modern foreign language in the North West and South East.
Advice August 2016
The DfE has now issued the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2016, and revised the non-statutory guidance ‘Implementing your School’s Approach to Pay’.
February 2016
The DfE has announced that the deadline for primary schools to submit Key Stage 1 and 2 teacher assessments has been postponed to 30 June. Schools Minister Nick Gibb confirmed the change in response to concerns raised by the sector.
Advice February 2016
The National Teaching Service (NTS) has been created to recruit high performing teachers and middle leaders directly into schools in challenging circumstances that are struggling to recruit and retain high-quality teachers.
Guidance paper July 2015
It is good practice to keep a CV up to date in order to take advantage of opportunities that may arise. These could be promotion possibilities, changes of role or simply including membership of a local voluntary or social organisation committee.
Advice March 2017
The National STEM Learning Network offers a unique STEM Insight programme for staff in schools and colleges to experience STEM-related work in industrial or university settings. Candidates take part in a placement, supported by face-to-face and online CPD.
Advice March 2015
The broad range of skills required to be an effective middle leader in a school makes it one of the toughest jobs there is. We break down the key skills that you will need to lead your team successfully.
Advice March 2014
The extension of the right to request flexible working was intended to come into force in April 2014. However, this was dependent on a clause in the Children and Families Bill 2013, which has only just received Royal Assent.
Advice October 2014
Effective leadership is a crucial factor in the success of a school. But how do you become a good middle leader, and what qualities and traits does the role require?
Advice September 2016
Around one in eight (12%) men and women are forced to stop working before state pension age due to ill-health or disability, according to research recently published by the TUC.
Advice September 2015
The DfE have now issued the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2015, and revised the non-statutory guidance ‘Implementing your School’s Approach to Pay’.
Advice July 2014
The DfE has helpfully put together a consolidated list of the autumn 2014 changes with hyperlinks to all of the relevant documents. This should be a helpful list for schools and colleges to cross-reference with their plans for September.
Advice September 2018
Teachers' Pensions, which administers the Teachers' Pension Scheme on behalf of the DfE, has announced that there is likely to be an increase in the amount employers pay towards the schemes in 2019/20.
Advice December 2017
It is now a legal requirement for all organisations with 250 or more employees to publish specific figures about their gender pay data.
Advice November 2016
Policy paper June 2015
Additional workload is work teachers do for perceived and/or unnecessary compliance processes which takes them away from the complex process of teaching and learning. This is driven by an out-of-kilter accountability culture.
Advice April 2014
Personal taxation is becoming increasingly complex, with many more people being obliged to move to self-assessment tax returns that can prove complex and are prone to errors.
Advice September 2018
Following the government announcement on 24 July 2018 on pay, we have been in dialogue with the DfE to understand how and when schools will receive their teachers’ pay grant allocations.
Advice December 2017
The DfE has published a guide to help governors and trustees make effective decisions when recruiting and selecting headteachers and other school leaders.
Leader article January 2016
Academies have changed the landscape on employment and too often staff find themselves with fewer entitlements than expected, so study your contract before you sign, says Sara Ford.
Guidance paper August 2015
ASCL is committed to a system of national pay and conditions. This guidance paper is intended to bring more consistency and equality to the process of assessing the level of responsibilities to inform decisions about setting pay for business leaders and business managers.
Advice August 2018
The Schoolteachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) is currently out for consultation until 3 September. We understand that information about the pay grant will be published by the DfE early in September.
Leader article July 2015
Pay progression data can reveal hidden – possibly discriminatory – trends, so it is vital to study it carefully, says Sara Ford.
Leader article May 2014
Richard Bird examines new government guidance on safeguarding and is reassured to find it emphasises professional judgement rather than box-ticking.
Leader article April 2015
Stephen Casey and David Binnie highlight the changes in the pipeline for teacher pensions.
Advice September 2018
The government published its response to the consultation on the 2018 School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) recommendations. The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Order confirms the 2018 to 2019 pay award.
Advice April 2016
The London Teachers Innovation Fund is open to any London teachers to apply for up to £10,000. Teachers will work with subject experts from universities, businesses, and subject associations to create teaching strategies and resources to raise the attainment and accelerate the progress of their stud
Policy paper June 2015
Continuous professional development and learning (CPDL) is the professional learning process that focuses on student outcomes and which staff (teachers and associate staff) undertake as a consequence of planned, differentiated and collaborative learning opportunities.
Advice September 2016
National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and the Future Leaders Trust are undertaking new research on the challenges of being a headteacher.
Advice September 2016
f you are a member of the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme, your benefit statement is now available online.
Advice April 2014
The DfE has announced a review of the 2004 National Standards for Headteachers. The aim of the review is to establish a set of standards that are unequivocal, clear, easy to understand and focus primarily on the key elements of high-quality school and system leadership.
Advice September 2017
Redundancy situations are stressful and difficult, both for those facing a job loss and those having to make difficult decisions about staffing in the light of shrinking budgets.
Advice February 2016
On 2 February 2016 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury published a written statement on Public Service Index and Revaluation 2016. This announcement affects anyone with a public service pension scheme and advises the calculations used during the annual revaluation of public service pensions.
Advice January 2016
Earlier this month, the Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new campaign to encourage business people and professionals in the private, public and charitable sectors to become mentors for young people.
Advice March 2014
ASCL received a letter from the DfE last week that outlines a proposed increase of 2.3 per cent in employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, taking the contribution to 16.4 per cent.
Advice January 2016
The STRB has received submissions and evidence from teaching organisations on the various matters within its remit from the Secretary of State.
Advice July 2017
If you want to step up into a more senior role, but feel you don’t have the skills, this new leadership mentoring scheme may be for you. State and independent girls’ schools are working together to encourage women into top jobs.
Advice December 2015
In response to requests from school leaders and potential teachers ASCL has produced a simple guide on the current routes into teaching.
Advice July 2014
ASCL has been campaigning for more equality in the remuneration of its business management practitioner members for several years. Earlier this term the association launched a survey to establish the impact that changes on the education landscape.
Leader article April 2015
ASCL has drawn up new guidance encouraging schools and local authorities (LAs) to pay school business leaders and school business managers at a rate that reflects their role in school leadership.
Advice September 2016
The Teachers’ Pensions Agency will soon be sending out letters to members who have breached the Annual Allowance for the tax year 2015-16.
April 2016
Do you know a teacher with an innovative idea to raise attainment? If so, they could win £15,000.
Advice July 2017
Headteacher board (HTB) elections are being held across the eight Regional Schools Commissioner regions. HTBs were established in 2014 to advise and challenge the RSCs on the decisions they take, and provide an opportunity for the sector to help shape the school system in their region.
Advice April 2018
ASCL is extremely concerned that schools are being left to pick up the tab for the recently agreed pay award covering school support staff without any additional funding from the government to meet this significant cost. ASCL has written to the Education Secretary to express our concerns.
Advice April 2017
Teachers’ Pensions has introduced Monthly Data Collection (MDC) for employers to provide their salary and service information. MDC replaces the Annual Service Return (ASR). All employers must be set up to use MDC by December 2017.
Leader article April 2015
Headship is potentially as rewarding as it is busy, so don’t let the scale of the job put you off.
Advice March 2016
Are you looking to draw on your pension benefits between 6 April and 31 August 2016? If so, you might need to apply for protection.
Leader article October 2014
With six months to go before the implementation of the reformed Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), David Binnie highlights the main issues behind the modifications.
Advice September 2018
ASCL has responded to the Consultation on the Secretary of State’s Response to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) Twenty-Eighth Report 2018.
Leader article September 2015
The number of women deputy and assistant heads is growing but if they are to aspire to headship realistically, the profession needs to offer them more targeted career support and development now, says Carol Jones
Advice May 2016
Last week, agreement was reached on the rates of pay applicable from 1 April 2016 to 1 April 2017 for business managers, business leaders and school and college support staff.
Advice May 2014
A National Headteacher Standards Review Group has been set up to define a revised set of standards for headteachers in England.
Advice August 2017
The DfE have published the 2017 version of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document. The main change this year concerns the uplift to the minima and maxima and the pay ranges.
Guidance paper September 2015
Pay progression linked to performance for all pay progression has been in place for all teaching staff since September 2013.
Advice March 2019
Academies will continue to receive pay and pensions grants until August 2020 because they are funded on an academic year basis.
Leader article July 2015
A 5 per cent hike in costs in the next 18 months will put all schools under more pressure, but an unequal funding system is exacerbating the problems for some. Members need to take action now, reports Julie Nightingale.
Advice March 2016
ASCL has previously welcomed the government’s recognition of the problem of workload. All parts of the education system do indeed have a role to play in reducing the unnecessary tasks that take teachers and school leaders away from their core task: improving outcomes for children.
Leader article December 2014
Karleen Dowden offers five ways that schools and colleges can bring students together with employers to gain insights into the working world.
Advice January 2015
The step from middle to senior leadership can seem like a huge leap. So how do you know when you are ready to begin applying, and what should you do to achieve your promotion?
Advice March 2014
This information is an extract from a letter that ASCL has received from the DfE related to the valuation of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. The letter gives a clear indication of a proposed increase in employer contributions to the TPS.
Advice October 2015
Are you working as a self-employed consultant, a sole trader, a business partnership or as your own limited company?
Advice September 2018
The government published the recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) on teachers’ pay for 2018-19 on 24 July and indicated its intention, following formal consultation, to implement them with effect from 1 September 2018.
Leader article October 2014
A new £22m scheme aims to capitalise on the power of networking to encourage more young people into HE and raise the pro¬ le of university outreach programmes, as Clair Murphy explains.
Advice May 2017
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for the UK recruitment industry, has updated its essential guide to safeguarding and good recruitment practice, Putting Pupils First.
Advice February 2019
Following consideration of the evidence of other statutory consultees, we have now submitted our supplementary evidence to the STRB. ASCL refutes the claim that a 2% increase is affordable by schools, made by the DfE in its submission, and we have provided evidence to support this.