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North-south divide in National Tutoring take-up
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Coronavirus
School closures
Catch up tuition
National tutoring programme
North-south divide
Regional inequality
Feb 23, 2021
Key ‘State of the North 2020’ report holds ‘levelling up’ agenda to account
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Regional inequality
North-south divide
Dec 7, 2020
GCSEs 2021: Plan 'won't level playing field' for North
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Regional inequality
North-south divide
GCSEs
A-levels
Coronavirus
Exams
Dec 7, 2020
'Nothing's better than Yorkshire': why the graduate brain drain could end
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North-south divide
Graduate outcomes
Jul 1, 2020
The geographic impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be diffuse and hard to manage
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Coronavirus
North-south divide
Regional inequality
Jun 15, 2020
The geographic impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be diffuse and hard to manage
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Coronavirus
School closures
Attainment gap
North-south divide
Regional inequality
Jun 15, 2020
Youngsters in the North missing out on education
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Coronavirus
School closures
North-south divide
Jun 4, 2020
North-south divide in maths and English results of excluded pupils
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Regional inequality
North-south divide
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May 11, 2020
It’s grim up north (yet again)
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North-south divide
Pupil performance
Disadvantaged pupils
Jan 27, 2020
Where apprenticeships are growing – and shrinking
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North-south divide
Apprenticeship training
Disadvantaged students
Jan 27, 2020
Pupil background 'levels out North-South divide'
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North-south divide
Disadvantaged pupils
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Pupil performance
Jan 27, 2020
North-south divide makes little difference once pupil background is considered – study
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Disadvantaged pupils
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Jan 27, 2020
Free schools planned to tackle North-South divide
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Free schools
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Attainment
Jan 26, 2020
Thousands of pupils let down by schools in north of England
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Working class
North-south divide
Social mobility
Michael Wilshaw
Jan 26, 2020
Northern schools 'penalised by Progress 8 tables'
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Oct 29, 2019
North-South divide in education is ‘too simplistic’ as poorer children do better in big cities across country, minister says
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Jun 17, 2019
Brain drain created north-south divide
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Dec 4, 2018
IPPR North comment on Autumn Budget
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Northern Powerhouse
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Budget
Oct 29, 2018
DfE announces £24m youth employment initiative
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Oct 8, 2018
DfE announces investment in North East
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Oct 8, 2018
£24m boost for North East schools
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Oct 8, 2018
Ambition School Leadership & Institute for Teaching comments on education secretary’s £24million for the north east announcement
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Oct 8, 2018
£24m schools initiative welcomed
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Oct 8, 2018
Education Secretary launches £24 million programme for North East
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Damian Hinds
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Oct 8, 2018
Need to know: Northern schools fight back
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Schools NorthEast
Oct 8, 2018
Hinds announces £24m for the north east following complaints over opportunity areas coverage
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Damian Hinds
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Oct 8, 2018
Education Secretary launches £24 million programme for employers and universities to seek out all the talent in the North East of England
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Damian Hinds
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Oct 8, 2018
North-south schools divide ‘not supported by evidence’
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Sep 11, 2018
GCSE results reveal north/south divide in England meaning you'll get better results if you live in the south
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Aug 23, 2018
Heads slam May over North-South uni admissions divide
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Aug 16, 2018
North-South divide 'all about pupil background'
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North-south divide
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Aug 8, 2018
Correspondence from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership regarding education in the north (23 July 2018)
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Northern Powerhouse
Robert Halfon
North-south divide
Jul 24, 2018
Correspondence from the Secretary of State regarding education in the north (15 June 2018)
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Damian Hinds
Robert Halfon
Northern Powerhouse
North-south divide
Jul 24, 2018
The north-south divide in schools is real – and it’s more complex than you think
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Jul 22, 2018
North-south divide in schools is real – and it’s more complex than you think
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Jul 5, 2018
North 'should lead its own schools transformation'
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Jun 8, 2018
The Northern Challenge?
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Northern Powerhouse
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London Challenge
May 23, 2018
Regional gulf in university entrants revealed
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May 22, 2018
North eastern students six times less likely to start medicine and dentistry degrees than London peers, finds analysis
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May 22, 2018
Six times as many new medical students from London as from north-east
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Medical
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May 22, 2018
North East students far outnumbered in many degree subjects
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Medical
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North-south divide
May 22, 2018
Northeast left behind in race for medical degrees
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May 22, 2018
The North-South doctor divide: Six times as many Londoners study medicine as those from the North East
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Medical
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May 21, 2018
What now for the North? Realities, myths and collective intelligence in the northern powerhouse
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North-south divide
May 9, 2018
MPs want answers on school improvement in the north
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School improvement
Education Committee
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North-south divide
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May 9, 2018
Secretary of State pressed on action on education in the North
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May 8, 2018
'It's time to be serious about funding in the North'
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May 8, 2018
Correspondence to the Secretary of State regarding education in the North
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May 8, 2018
'Stark' North-South gap in GCSE results needs urgent government intervention, say MPs
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May 8, 2018
MPs demand action to improve education in the north
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May 8, 2018
Osborne urges government to make improving northern schools its 'big idea'
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George Osborne
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May 2, 2018
Osborne to urge ministers to bridge the North-South gap in school standards
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George Osborne
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May 2, 2018
Improving Northern schools should be a national priority
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May 2, 2018
Co-op 'turbo-charging' academies sponsorship in bid to boost the north
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Academies
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MATs
North-south divide
Apr 6, 2018
Grammar schools should be ‘phased out’ as they damage social mobility, says study
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Grammar schools
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North-south divide
Attainment gap
Mar 27, 2018
Study 'explodes myth' that poor families have lower ambitions for their children
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Disadvantaged pupils
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Mar 27, 2018
Pupils in the north of England are 'being left behind' by those in the south
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North-south divide
Disadvantaged pupils
Poverty
London
Funding
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Mar 27, 2018
How Northern students see North-South education gap
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Social mobility
Mar 26, 2018
'Poor schools' leave Northern children behind
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Underperformance
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Mar 26, 2018
Children in north 'being left behind', children's commissioner warns
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Mar 26, 2018
Northern children ‘being left behind’ – Children’s Commissioner
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Northern Powerhouse
Mar 26, 2018
Northern schools blast RSCs in children’s commissioner report
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Mar 26, 2018
Children's commissioner's North report calls for greater early intervention
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Mar 26, 2018
Growing up North
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Mar 26, 2018
Children in northern England being hit by 'double whammy' of poverty and failing schools, warns report
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Mar 26, 2018
Pupils in north of England 'being left behind' by southern counterparts
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Mar 26, 2018
Children's commissioner: Northern pupils face double whammy of 'poor' schools and deprivation
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Mar 26, 2018
Children in the north of England ‘left behind’ at school
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Mar 26, 2018
The education week that was: Snow days, northern standards and teacher fads
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Ofsted
Mar 4, 2018
Long-term disadvantage, part five: What explains the gap between London and the north?
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Disadvantaged pupils
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London
North-south divide
Feb 23, 2018
Long-term disadvantage, part six: Measuring disadvantage in the north
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North-south divide
Feb 23, 2018
Schools in the north need more resources – but not because they’re less effective
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Disadvantaged pupils
Northern Powerhouse
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North-south divide
Feb 23, 2018
Wilshaw: Academisation failing to boost 'miserable' standards in the North
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Northern Powerhouse
Feb 5, 2018
Research round-up - 5 February 2018
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Feb 5, 2018
Theresa May told to invest in North as school report reveals kids in South are one GCSE grade ahead
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Feb 2, 2018
Pupils in the north are being failed, says George Osborne
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Feb 2, 2018
Northern Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
Educating the North: Driving ambition through the Powerhouse
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Northern Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
Educating the North: driving ambition across the Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
'Disadvantaged' children in the North of England are 'falling behind' by one GCSE grade
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North-south divide
Northern Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
North-South divide in education standards affecting too many northern young people, report warns
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Feb 1, 2018
Improving Northern schools should be 'top of Damian Hinds' in-tray'
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Northern Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
Funding for 16-18 vocational spending should be devolved to Northern mayors
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Feb 1, 2018
Disadvantaged pupils achieve lower grades in north than in London
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London
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Feb 1, 2018
Migrants who speak English as a second language get better GCSE grades than British kids
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English
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Jan 26, 2018
The rediscovery of class
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North-south divide
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Jan 25, 2018
Skills for the North: Devolving technical education to cities
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Skills
North-south divide
Devolution
Jan 22, 2018
Skills for the North: Devolving technical education to cities
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Jan 17, 2018
The social divide hasn’t gone away
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Social inequality
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Employment
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Jan 16, 2018
Access to high performance schools in England
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EPI
School performance
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Widening access
Social mobility
North-south divide
School places
Dec 22, 2017
Access to high performing schools in England
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Access
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Dec 21, 2017
Born in the wrong place for good schools?
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EPI
Dec 21, 2017
Access to the best secondary schools ‘hasn’t improved since 2010’
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Dec 21, 2017
Access to 'top' schools has become more unequal, finds research
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Dec 21, 2017
Social mobility in Great Britain: Fifth state of the nation report
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Nov 30, 2017
The north-south divide in Britain's secondary schools
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Nov 27, 2017
Budget 2017: fixing the north-south divide in R&D funding
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Nov 22, 2017
Pupils in South East as good as Japanese at science
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Nov 21, 2017
Northern cities beaten to Oxbridge by 12 schools in south
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Nov 21, 2017
Frances O’Grady: How to create jobs and fight the north‑south divide
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Times
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Oct 23, 2017
Oxford and Cambridge dominated by applicants from the southeast
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Oct 20, 2017
Free schools meals measure masks north south divide in pupil poverty
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TES
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Sep 5, 2017
Language learning gap widens between North and South of England
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British Council
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Ebacc
Jun 16, 2017
North missing out on learning languages
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Jun 16, 2017
‘Widening gap’ between London and rest of country in language GCSEs, warns report
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Jun 16, 2017
North-south divide in GCSE language entries
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Jun 16, 2017
‘Red tape and terror killing off school foreign exchange trips’
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Jun 16, 2017
The poor North: Great Britain before the election
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Sutton Trust
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Jun 7, 2017
Academy chain shortage in the north, while south prospers
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Schools Week
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Apr 20, 2017
The north-south divide: a tale of two academies
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Feb 28, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 3 February 2017
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Feb 7, 2017
Northern Powerhouse report: Schools need urgent attention
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Feb 3, 2017
George Osborne: north-south divide in schools needs urgent attention
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Feb 3, 2017
Northern schools need 'urgent attention', says George Osborne thinktank
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Feb 3, 2017
Policy Watch on the latest week in education
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Dec 9, 2016
Northern parents need to copy pushy Southerners, children's commissioner says
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Dec 7, 2016
Children’s commissioner launches ‘growing up north’ — a project to collect data on the northern education gap
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Dec 6, 2016
Ofsted report shows need to address recruitment crisis
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Dec 1, 2016
North-South education gap widening, Ofsted finds
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Dec 1, 2016
Mind the gap
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Dec 1, 2016
Michael Wilshaw: Failure to improve schools linked to Brexit
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Dec 1, 2016
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