Our Future Derby: New findings from ground-breaking regional project
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Social mobility Opportunity areas Careers education
  • Oct 4, 2021
Glasses in Classes scheme rolled out to boost literacy
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Literacy Reading Opportunity areas Visual impairment
  • Sep 23, 2021
Opportunity areas insight guides
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Opportunity areas
  • Sep 14, 2021
Opportunity areas insight guides
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Opportunity areas Disadvantaged
  • May 19, 2021
Thousands more young people to benefit from Opportunity Areas
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Opportunity areas Disadvantaged
  • May 19, 2021
PM announces £18m opportunity areas expansion, and £10m to boost quality of teaching
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Opportunity areas
  • May 19, 2021
DfE eyes wider rollout of ‘glasses in classes’ and wellbeing schemes after opportunity areas success
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Opportunity areas Eye tests Wellbeing Pupil support
  • Mar 23, 2021
Opportunity areas get extra year, but cash cut by 25%
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Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • Nov 27, 2020
Opportunity Areas programme to support young people hit hardest by pandemic
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Coronavirus Opportunity areas Disadvantaged students Skills Training
  • Jul 17, 2020
Opportunity areas funding crucial to help reverse the impact of the coronavirus on education
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Opportunity areas School funding
  • Jul 17, 2020
DfE announces an extra £18m for Opportunity Areas
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Opportunity areas Funding
  • Nov 4, 2019
£18m extension to Opportunity Area programme
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Opportunity areas Funding
  • Nov 4, 2019
£18m funding boost for Opportunity Area programme
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  • Nov 4, 2019
£18m to fund opportunity areas until 2021
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Opportunity areas Funding
  • Nov 4, 2019
Opportunity areas, 'Bercow: 10 Years On': S31 grant determination and letter
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Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • Sep 9, 2019
Opportunity Areas inquiry chair flags concerns in letter to Hinds
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Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils Funding Social mobility
  • Jul 19, 2019
Opportunity areas: Committee Chair writes to Secretary of State for Education
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Opportunity areas Social mobility Disadvantaged
  • Jul 17, 2019
Education committee chair 'unconvinced' opportunity areas improve social mobility
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Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils Opportunity areas
  • Jul 17, 2019
Concerns over DfE's £72m social mobility programme
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Social mobility Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jul 17, 2019
Education committee ‘unconvinced’ by £72m opportunity areas programme
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Opportunity areas Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jul 17, 2019
House of Commons Education Committee Opportunity Areas inquiry: NFER submission
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Opportunity areas Education Committee Disadvantaged
  • May 29, 2019
Teachers will get £2,000 deprived area boost
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Early career teachers Maths Physics Incentives Opportunity areas
  • May 23, 2019
Cash incentives for maths and physics teachers
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Incentives Maths Physics Teacher retention Early career teachers Opportunity areas
  • May 23, 2019
Apply for mathematics and physics teacher retention payments
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Teacher retention Early career teachers Maths Physics Incentives Opportunity areas
  • May 23, 2019
Maths and physics teachers to get £2K retention payments
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Maths Physics Teacher retention Opportunity areas Early career teachers
  • May 23, 2019
New maths and physics teachers will get an extra £2,000 a year if they work in 'tough' areas
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Maths Physics Early career teachers Teacher retention Opportunity areas
  • May 23, 2019
Teachers get £2,000 extra to work in deprived areas
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Early career teachers Maths Physics Opportunity areas Teacher retention
  • May 23, 2019
Zahawi defends Opportunity Areas initiative to MPs
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Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility
  • May 15, 2019
Cutting off social mobility plan would be 'terrible', minister says
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Social mobility Opportunity areas
  • May 14, 2019
Minister admits Opportunity Areas need ‘more ambitious outlook’ to continue beyond 2020
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Opportunity areas Nadhim Zahawi Education Select Committee
  • May 14, 2019
DfE accused of 'micromanaging' independent evidence to MPs
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Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • May 14, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re opportunity areas
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Education Committee Opportunity areas Funding Nadhim Zahawi
  • May 14, 2019
Opportunity areas: Children and Families Minister Nadhim Zahawi questioned
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Opportunity areas Nadhim Zahawi
  • May 10, 2019
Amanda Spielman's speech to the North Yorkshire Coast Opportunity Area
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Amanda Spielman Ofsted Opportunity areas Ofsted framework Inspections
  • May 2, 2019
Opportunity Areas accused of 'draining resources'
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Opportunity areas Funding Disadvantaged
  • May 2, 2019
Opportunity areas suffer from lack of cross-government support, MPs warned
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Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • May 1, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re opportunity areas
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Opportunity areas Education Committee
  • May 1, 2019
Opportunity areas: Education Committee to hold roundtable discussion
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Opportunity areas Education Committee Disadvantaged
  • Apr 26, 2019
Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots'
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Social mobility Attainment gap Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils
  • Feb 21, 2019
Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes
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Opportunity areas Pupil outcomes Social mobility
  • Feb 15, 2019
Huge spending disparities in flagship DfE social mobility programme
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Education spending Social mobility Opportunity areas
  • Jan 17, 2019
Opportunity areas grant: S31 grant determination and letters
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Opportunity areas Funding Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Dec 5, 2018
Report warns that Opportunity Areas are ‘too led’ by DfE
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Opportunity areas DfE Social mobility
  • Oct 19, 2018
Opportunity area programme: research and analysis
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Opportunity areas
  • Oct 17, 2018
Partnership Boards combined with DfE local delivery teams are leading the way for change in Opportunity Areas
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Opportunity areas Social mobility DfE
  • Oct 17, 2018
Opportunity areas are 'too heavily led' by the DfE
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Opportunity areas DfE Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils Deprived areas
  • Oct 17, 2018
Hinds announces £24m for the north east following complaints over opportunity areas coverage
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Damian Hinds Funding Opportunity areas North-south divide Disadvantaged pupils
  • Oct 8, 2018
Social mobility and opportunity areas
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Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils
  • Sep 20, 2018
New £1.6million investment in projects in North Yorkshire
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Funding Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • Aug 28, 2018
New £1.6million investment in projects in North Yorkshire
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Funding Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • Aug 28, 2018
Social mobility and opportunity areas
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Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • Aug 6, 2018
Social mobility and opportunity areas
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  • Aug 6, 2018
£1million to improve life skills for young people in Doncaster
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Funding Life skills Opportunity areas Disadvantaged
  • Jul 23, 2018
'Opportunity areas' are hampered by lack of time, claims ex-schools minister
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Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • May 2, 2018
Five things Damian Hinds told MPs at his first education committee appearance
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Damian Hinds Education Committee Best practice Pupil exclusions Budgets Finances Funding Pupil premium Attainment Opportunity areas
  • Mar 21, 2018
10:00 a.m. Children and Families Minister Nadhim Zahawi MP to be questioned by Education Committee
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Safeguarding Opportunity areas
  • Mar 14, 2018
Children and Families Minister questioned
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Nadhim Zahawi Safeguarding Childcare Opportunity areas
  • Mar 9, 2018
Opportunity areas: S31 grant determination and letters
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Funding Opportunity areas DfE Grants Social mobility Disadvantaged
  • Jan 26, 2018
Schools seek to broaden pupils’ horizons and life chances
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Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils Attainment Social mobility
  • Jan 22, 2018
Social mobility and opportunity areas
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Social mobility Opportunity areas
  • Jan 19, 2018
Drive to raise education standards in areas most in need
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Underperforming schools Opportunity areas Disadvantaged Social mobility Standards Funding School improvement
  • Jan 19, 2018
Damian Hinds announces education drive for disadvantaged areas
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Damian Hinds Disadvantaged pupils Funding Opportunity areas Social mobility MATs Academies
  • Jan 19, 2018
Second wave of ‘opportunity area’ plans published: What do schools need to know?
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Opportunity areas Damian Hinds Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jan 19, 2018
Drive to raise education standards in areas most in need
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Damian Hinds Underperforming schools Standards Opportunity areas Funding Social mobility Disadvantaged
  • Jan 19, 2018
£45m to be given to academy chains to help underperformance in disadvantaged areas
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Academies MATs Funding Underperformance Disadvantaged pupils Opportunity areas Social mobility
  • Jan 19, 2018
Ipswich gets new research school as Damian Hinds sets out opportunity area plans
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Damian Hinds Research schools Opportunity areas Funding
  • Jan 19, 2018
Flagship social mobility programme risked 'overloading' schools, DfE official reveals
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Social mobility Damian Hinds Opportunity areas
  • Jan 18, 2018
Now Teach will target government's social mobility 'cold spots'
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Now Teach Social mobility Funding Teacher training Opportunity areas
  • Jan 5, 2018
Access to high performing schools in England
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Access School places Secondary schools School performance Academic achievement Widening access Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils North-south divide Opportunity areas Funding
  • Dec 21, 2017
Born in the wrong place for good schools?
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Widening access North-south divide School performance Social mobility Academic achievement Funding Opportunity areas Secondary 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
Is English education world class in primary?
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Maths Attainment Primary Pupil performance Opportunity areas
  • Dec 15, 2017
Improving social mobility through education
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Social mobility Opportunity areas Attainment Literacy Post-16
  • Dec 14, 2017
Social mobility: Action plan to target free schools at underperforming areas
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  • Dec 14, 2017
English education: world class in primary?
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Primary schools Pupil performance Attainment Assessment TIMSS Underperformance Maths Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils
  • Dec 13, 2017
Careers strategy: The 4 main proposals for schools
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  • Dec 4, 2017
'It feels a little forgotten': West Somerset bears brunt of social mobility challenge
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Social mobility Opportunity areas Disadvantaged Social Mobility Commission
  • Nov 28, 2017
Social Mobility Commission response
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Social mobility Social Mobility Commission Disadvantaged London Early years Teacher recruitment Retention Opportunity areas Funding
  • Nov 28, 2017
Sense of place
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  • Nov 22, 2017
What will the 2017 autumn budget have in store for schools?
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  • Nov 21, 2017
Social media, mental health and 5 other issues which need action, according to the children's commissioner
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Education Select Committee Mental health Social media Opportunity areas PSHE Behaviour Social mobility Wellbeing Attainment Cyber bullying Pupil exclusions
  • Nov 14, 2017
Analysis: Why aren't there any Opportunity Areas in the North East?
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EPI Opportunity areas DfE Social mobility Primary Secondary Teach First
  • Oct 25, 2017
Greening agrees north-east needs Opportunity Area
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Schools Week Justine Greening Opportunity areas Funding Inequality
  • Oct 24, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 13 October 2017
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  • Oct 13, 2017
Greening’s taking education back to the 80s
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Schools Week Grammar schools Teacher training Apprenticeships Opportunity areas Justine Greening
  • Oct 13, 2017
Plans launched to drive social mobility in Opportunity Areas
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Plans launched to drive social mobility in Opportunity Areas
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DfE Social mobility Opportunity areas Justine Greening Standards Attainment
  • Oct 9, 2017
DfE unveils 'opportunity area' plans
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CYPN Opportunity areas DfE Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Oct 9, 2017
Opportunity area plans – what do schools need to know?
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Schools Week Opportunity areas DfE Funding Social mobility School improvement
  • Oct 9, 2017
Education Secretary launches plans to raise education standards
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Justine Greening Opportunity areas Standards Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Oct 9, 2017
Exclusions, early years, skills: Opportunity areas reveal their priorities
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TES Opportunity areas Funding Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils Justine Greening
  • Oct 9, 2017
Social mobility and opportunity areas
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DfE Social mobility Opportunity areas Disadvantaged pupils
  • Oct 9, 2017
Greening reveals projects in first 6 ‘opportunity areas’
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Schools Week Justine Greening Attainment Opportunity areas Partnerships EEF
  • Oct 9, 2017
Opportunity areas could face 'unrealistic expectations', warns DfE research
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TES Opportunity areas Social mobility DfE Disadvantaged
  • Aug 16, 2017
We won’t know if opportunity areas have worked until at least 2021
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Schools Week Opportunity areas Funding Social mobility DfE
  • Aug 16, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 11 August 2017
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  • Aug 11, 2017
Closing the gap?
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  • Aug 9, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils 'falling further behind', study finds
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  • Aug 3, 2017
‘Regional disparity of disadvantaged pupils’ – expert reaction to new EPI report
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  • Aug 3, 2017
Closing the gap? Educational attainment and disadvantage
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EPI Attainment Disadvantaged pupils Attainment gap Secondary schools Primary schools GCSEs Opportunity areas
  • Aug 3, 2017
Opportunity areas exclude regions where attainment gap grows fastest, EPI finds
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Schools Week Opportunity areas Attainment gap Disadvantaged pupils DfE Funding EPI Social mobility
  • Aug 3, 2017
We need to tackle recruitment and invest in schools to help tackle disadvantage, says NAHT
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NAHT Equality Disadvantaged EPI Social mobility Attainment Primary schools Secondary schools Opportunity areas Funding
  • Aug 2, 2017
'There is inevitably an arms race': parents on opportunity hoarding
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Opportunity areas Parents Social inequality
  • Jul 23, 2017
Analysis lays bare challenges facing new Opportunity Areas
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  • Nov 23, 2016