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Nuffield Foundation to also recommend longer half-term breaks in proposed overhaul of calendar ‘in place since Victorian times’England should ditch its school calendar “stuck in place since Victorian times” and replace it with shorter summer holidays and longer half-term breaks to improve the lives of pupils and teachers, according to a new report.The report on tackling post-pandemic education inequalities, to be published by the...

Sir Martyn Oliver says he is a proud northerner who has taken on some of the most ‘difficult and damaged’ schoolsTurning around some of the toughest schools in England is the ideal preparation to become Ofsted’s chief inspector when schools are still struggling after the Covid crisis, according to Sir Martyn Oliver.With 28 years as a teacher and school leader behind him before being...