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School where staff mark ‘how they like’ gets government approval
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Dec 17, 2017
Council demands £1m from MAT that abandoned a failing school
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Dec 16, 2017
Now the end of 2017 is near, I too face a final curtain
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Dec 15, 2017
More non-EBacc teacher training places needed following drop in entries
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Oct 26, 2017
Wayland Academy Norfolk issued with funding termination warning
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Oct 26, 2017
Schools can finish old computer science test, says Edexcel
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Oct 26, 2017
Cost of regional schools commissioners soars to £26 million
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Oct 25, 2017
NCFE develops 2020 vision for technical education in schools
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Oct 25, 2017
School support staff have borne the brunt of funding cuts
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Oct 25, 2017
Government names 25 areas for teacher student loan forgiveness pilot
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Oct 24, 2017
Mental health green paper will tackle risks of social media
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Oct 24, 2017
Teacher apprenticeship ‘not a priority’ for Labour, says Rayner
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Oct 24, 2017
Greening agrees north-east needs Opportunity Area
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Oct 24, 2017
Funding for PE doubles to £320 million per year
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Oct 24, 2017
Ofsted wipes academy convertor reports after 5 years
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Oct 24, 2017
Improve part-time working to halt decline in secondary school teachers, says NFER
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Oct 24, 2017
School staff to march on parliament over funding cuts
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Oct 24, 2017
Why we're marching on Westminster for school funding
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Oct 23, 2017
How to create a successful digital strategy for schools
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Oct 23, 2017
SEND pupils missing out on school places, ombudsman warns
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Oct 23, 2017
Former Co-op boss appointed to £800-a-day DfE board position
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Oct 23, 2017
Agreement reached over age restrictions at former UTC site
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Oct 23, 2017
Essex council plans spin-off multi-academy trust
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Oct 23, 2017
CEOs, CFOs & COOS: How MATs struggle to recruit executives
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Oct 23, 2017
£24m up for grabs to run breakfast clubs in 1,500 schools
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Oct 20, 2017
Pregnant? Offender? What the government wants to know about AP pupils
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Oct 20, 2017
£53m MAT growth fund open to trusts without proven record
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Oct 20, 2017
Five things to be positive on the future of children's mental health
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Oct 19, 2017
Confirmed: Teacher apprentices will be paid on unqualified scale
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Oct 19, 2017
Unauthorised absences up despite government crackdown
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Oct 19, 2017
More reception pupils have ‘good’ development, and 4 other findings from EYFS results data
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Oct 19, 2017
Schools must restart 20-hour computer science test amid security concerns
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Oct 19, 2017
Baverstock Academy fraud inquiry closed
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Oct 18, 2017
Jamie Oliver: Delayed ‘healthy schools rating’ should be compulsory
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Oct 18, 2017
New association to ‘oversee’ apprenticeship assessment
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Oct 17, 2017
Calls to end ‘discrimination’ against citizenship teachers
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Oct 17, 2017
EEF launches new music, drama and journalism trials
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Oct 17, 2017
Pension-age teachers can continue working but with added support, concludes review
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Oct 13, 2017
Nottingham’s charter to cap teacher overtime needs ‘national leader’
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Oct 13, 2017
Apprenticeships a ‘fragile’ form of training, research warns
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Oct 13, 2017
Schools minister went on £10k trip to ‘reinforce relationships’ with Australia and Singapore
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Oct 13, 2017
Small private schools face £3,800 rise in Ofsted inspection fees
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Oct 13, 2017
Ofsted wins school gender segregation appeal
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Oct 13, 2017
Don’t make schools collect ‘character’ data, insists Morgan
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Oct 13, 2017
Dominant multi-academy trusts risk investigation for monopolising markets
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Oct 13, 2017
Ofqual accused of ‘refusing to engage’ with colour-blindness
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Oct 13, 2017
Greening’s taking education back to the 80s
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Oct 13, 2017
Numeric GCSE grades system harming Progress 8 and Attainment 8
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Oct 12, 2017
Katie Hopkins is not a suitable speaker for schools
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Oct 12, 2017
A-level and 16-19 results 2017: UTCs get lowest average score
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Oct 12, 2017
Savings still not found to give schools £1.3bn, DfE admits
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Oct 12, 2017
EBacc results 2017: Entries drop as academies perform strongest
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Oct 12, 2017
EBacc: Entry and achievement rates down
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Oct 12, 2017
Sutton Trust: 2 in 5 pupils do no extracurricular activity
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Oct 12, 2017
How and when money matters in education
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Oct 11, 2017
Ofsted is right about the knowledge-rich curriculum
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Oct 11, 2017
Headteacher board elections: the results
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Oct 11, 2017
Gibb blasted for ‘lack of action’ on sexual harassment in schools
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Oct 11, 2017
Ofsted publishes curriculum review preliminary findings
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Oct 11, 2017
T-Levels: New post-16 ‘education and childcare’ vocational route announced
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Oct 11, 2017
RSC pushed to rebroker WCAT schools nine months before official announcements
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Oct 10, 2017
Revealed: New sponsors for WCAT's schools
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Oct 10, 2017
Government approves new teacher apprenticeship
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Oct 10, 2017
DfE to review ‘disproportionate’ exclusions of certain ethnicities
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Oct 10, 2017
Headteacher outcry after £7m SEND pot assigned to academy expansion
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Oct 10, 2017
Excluded pupils twice as likely to have unqualified teachers, report finds
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Oct 10, 2017
Schools are meeting more careers-advice benchmarks
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Oct 10, 2017
Teaching apprenticeship rumoured to launch this week
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Oct 9, 2017
Is pushing the cadets really in pupils’ best interests?
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Oct 9, 2017
Opportunity area plans – what do schools need to know?
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Oct 9, 2017
DfE tightens grip on curriculum with new policy jobs
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Oct 9, 2017
Schools open 3-year sixth forms to boost pupil numbers
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Oct 9, 2017
Greening reveals projects in first 6 ‘opportunity areas’
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Oct 9, 2017
Harris academy chain to build 100 homes for teachers
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Oct 6, 2017
Schools can invite Katie Hopkins to speak, says Prevent expert
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Oct 6, 2017
Government delays land valuations — leaving schools to foot the bill
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Oct 6, 2017
Leeds Trinity and Hertfordshire University to create teacher ‘degree apprenticeships’
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Oct 5, 2017
WomenEd invites flexible working ideas for schools
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Oct 5, 2017
Ofqual rules 2016 SATs reading test was ‘unduly hard’
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Oct 5, 2017
Academisation makes it harder for local schools to work together
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Oct 4, 2017
Halfon: ‘Cut pupil premium for schools that don’t promote apprenticeships’
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Oct 3, 2017
Teaching apprenticeships will work if used wisely
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Oct 3, 2017
Maths teacher bursaries rise £10,000, but they’ll get less upfront
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Oct 2, 2017
New National Institute of Education set up to help schools use apprenticeship levy
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Oct 2, 2017
Social mobility isn’t about behaving like the middle class
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Oct 2, 2017
Teachers will get last year’s student loan payments back under pilot
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Oct 2, 2017
Pearson merges Edexcel exams and textbooks publisher – but insists staff won’t mix
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Oct 2, 2017
Entering SEND pupils to pre-key stage standards ‘too subjective’
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Oct 2, 2017
Six organisations win a slice of £75m Teaching & Leadership Fund
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Oct 2, 2017
Nearly 5,000 prospective teachers fail QTS tests 3 times
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Oct 2, 2017
Teachers to get student loan forgiveness in government pilot
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Oct 1, 2017
Greening’s conference speech 2017: the 6 key announcements
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Oct 1, 2017
Lawyers told ministers grammar school expansion likely to be illegal
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Oct 1, 2017
STRB given ‘flexibility’ over 1% teacher pay cap
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Sep 29, 2017
30-hour free childcare plan would widen school readiness gap
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Sep 28, 2017
Executive heads can vote multiple times in headteacher board election loophole
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Sep 22, 2017
Top Newham sixth form kicks pupils out half-way through A-levels
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Sep 22, 2017
Literacy strongest predictor of science grades
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Sep 22, 2017
Ofsted sets out plans to shake up short inspections
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Sep 21, 2017
Private and state schools slump on creative arts GCSEs – but why?
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Sep 21, 2017
MPs to investigate PRUs in alternative provision inquiry
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Sep 20, 2017
LocatEd announces first new free school
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Sep 18, 2017
Why a SEND initial teacher training pathway is a bad idea
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Sep 18, 2017
University-backed academy trust praised for ‘rapid’ improvement
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Sep 18, 2017
Private schools repeatedly fail school standards but stay open
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Sep 18, 2017
Information Commissioner cracks down on pupil nationality data collection
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Sep 15, 2017
Superhead researchers reveal 9 indicators of a successful ‘turnaround’ headteacher
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Sep 14, 2017
Governors! Here’s how to tell if your turnaround head is effective
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Sep 14, 2017
Laker and Hill: Replace at least a third of staff to fix failing schools
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Sep 14, 2017
KS1 SATs will only be scrapped if baseline works
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Sep 14, 2017
Government scraps places limit for teacher training courses
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Sep 14, 2017
P-levels will be scrapped as government accepts Rochford Review
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Sep 14, 2017
Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’
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Sep 14, 2017
Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’
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Sep 14, 2017
Greening: New “teacher-mediated” baseline tests for 4-year-olds
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Sep 14, 2017
Key stage 1 SATs scrapped from 2023
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Sep 14, 2017
Greening confirms times-tables check for year 4 pupils
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Sep 14, 2017
Primary schools to get minimum funding of £3,500 per-pupil
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Sep 14, 2017
Headteachers ‘too nervous’ to stand for board elections
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Sep 14, 2017
Government lifts the lid on new school improvement boards
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Sep 13, 2017
Strategic school improvement fund opens its second round
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Sep 13, 2017
MPs to grill Greening on school funding and GCSE changes
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Sep 13, 2017
Durand appoints new directors following Sir Greg Martin's resignation
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Sep 13, 2017
What’s the law on confiscating a pupil’s mobile phone?
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Sep 13, 2017
DfE won't fund Toby Young and Sir Anthony Seldon's fast-track headship college
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Sep 13, 2017
Workload and government policy forcing teachers out, DfE research finds
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Sep 13, 2017
Most new apprentice teaching assistants are paid just £3.50
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Sep 13, 2017
Teaching unions demand action on public sector pay cap
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Sep 12, 2017
Faith groups unlikely to see 50% cap lifted but ‘other options’ are possible, says Toby Young
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Sep 12, 2017
The 6 most important things in today’s OECD briefing
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Sep 12, 2017
Full education select committee line-up confirmed
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Sep 12, 2017
DfE can't prove teacher recruitment and retention efforts are working
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Sep 12, 2017
Ofsted lodges last-minute appeal against High Court’s Durand Academy ruling
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Sep 11, 2017
MP accuses government of breaking promises on school uniform costs
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Sep 8, 2017
WCAT to give away all 21 of its schools
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Sep 8, 2017
Councils pressured to place children in boarding schools instead of care
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Sep 7, 2017
Five new UTCs open after a spate of closures over the summer
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Sep 7, 2017
Poor pupils eschew music and sports clubs for more core tuition
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Sep 7, 2017
Children prefer teachers who build relationships, research shows
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Sep 7, 2017
Folks, we need to talk about exam re-marks
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Sep 6, 2017
The academy chains that shared £30m growth funding
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Sep 6, 2017
New technical awards in disarray after government rejects 9 of 10
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Sep 6, 2017
Teacher recruitment worries deepen after Brexit immigration plan leaked
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Sep 6, 2017
Too few reception pupils are ready for school, heads claim
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Sep 6, 2017
Parental backlash forces academy trust to abandon school closure
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Sep 5, 2017
One in 10 Kent schools don't have a headteacher
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Sep 5, 2017
Former head guilty of £100,000 fraud and having sex in school
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Sep 5, 2017
Mixed-ability classes barely exist in schools, researchers find
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Sep 5, 2017
Top universities reluctant to sponsor struggling schools
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Sep 5, 2017
DfE advertises ‘school improvement’ roles for RSC office
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Sep 4, 2017
University-backed academy trust criticised for overseeing weak teaching
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Sep 4, 2017
Pioneering London academy absorbed by Harris Federation
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Sep 1, 2017
NEU launches as the largest education union in Europe
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Sep 1, 2017
Councils demand powers to expand academies as pupil bulge hits secondary schools
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Sep 1, 2017
Ofqual to review rules on teachers setting exams amid Eton cheating scandal
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Aug 31, 2017
Primary school floor standards for 2017
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Aug 31, 2017
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Aug 31, 2017
Just three independent schools removed from register in three years
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Aug 31, 2017
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Aug 30, 2017
DfE launches £100k tender to independently review complaints against Ofsted
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Aug 29, 2017
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Aug 29, 2017
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Aug 29, 2017
Nearly half of year 7 pupils make no progress in English
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Aug 29, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
Student who spoke no English in year 7 excels in language and literature GCSEs
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Aug 24, 2017
Burnley student who defied death collects his results
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Aug 24, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
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Aug 24, 2017
GCSE results 2017: Standard pass rates steady despite major grading reform
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Aug 24, 2017
GCSE results 2017: More than 2,000 pupils scored 9s in all three reformed exams
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Aug 24, 2017
Costs of rebrokering academies to be published for first time
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Aug 23, 2017
The reformed GCSEs are the qualifications this country needs
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Aug 23, 2017
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Aug 23, 2017
Eileen Milner appointed as CEO of Education and Skills Funding Agency
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Aug 23, 2017
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Aug 23, 2017
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Aug 23, 2017
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Aug 23, 2017
New GCSEs dogged by ‘long tail of underachievement’
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Aug 23, 2017
Which accountability measures should schools prioritise?
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Aug 22, 2017
EBacc improves pupils’ chances of studying A-levels
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Aug 22, 2017
United Learning removes advert for ‘unpaid internship’ in school after MP complains
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Aug 21, 2017
Small school sixth form judicial review costs taxpayer £76,000
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Aug 21, 2017
Multiple sclerosis proves no barrier to success
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Aug 17, 2017
A-levels 2017: Today’s top 7 stories
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Aug 17, 2017
A-Levels 2017: ‘Politics yay, history boo’ – the changing tastes of 18-year-olds
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Aug 17, 2017
Academy celebrates first-ever Oxbridge student
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Aug 17, 2017
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Aug 17, 2017
Student turns down grammar school place for secondary modern sixth-form
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Aug 17, 2017
A-levels 2017: Top science grades take a tumble
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Aug 17, 2017
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Aug 16, 2017
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Aug 16, 2017
We won’t know if opportunity areas have worked until at least 2021
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Aug 16, 2017
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Aug 15, 2017
School pupils move into three former UTC sites
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Aug 15, 2017
A-level results 2017: How Schools Week will report the day and what to look out for
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Aug 14, 2017
High Court ruling threatens Ofsted’s ability to publish negative reports
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Aug 14, 2017
A-level results 2017: Stories from secondary moderns
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Aug 14, 2017
Judge: Durand management may have taken ‘eye off the ball’ over EFA squabble
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Aug 14, 2017
A-level maths is more useful for top university places than private school
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Aug 13, 2017
Boys’ A-level performance set to rise this year, predicts academic
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Aug 12, 2017
Can a school decide to leave an academy trust?
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Aug 11, 2017
Academy trust fights on to pick its own feeder schools
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Aug 10, 2017
Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
iGCSE results will not be published this year
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
Former Birmingham governor Waseem Yaqub banned from running schools
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Aug 9, 2017
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Aug 9, 2017
Releasing SATs marking guidance ‘would increase teacher workload’, claim ministers
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Aug 9, 2017
Confusion reigns over new rules for independent coursework reviews
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Aug 9, 2017
50 years before we have an equitable school system
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Aug 8, 2017
Candidates announced for RSC headteacher board elections
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Aug 4, 2017
Is extending school hours a good idea? Here’s what the new government research says…
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Aug 3, 2017
Funding cuts block schools from delivering mental health support
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Aug 3, 2017
University access gap between poor pupils and their peers widens
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Aug 3, 2017
Giving schools extra money only boosts attainment by a ‘fraction’, DfE study finds
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Aug 3, 2017
Just 1 in 6 schools have character education plan despite £10m funding
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Aug 3, 2017
Opportunity areas exclude regions where attainment gap grows fastest, EPI finds
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Aug 3, 2017
Schools avoid budget cuts for A-level drop-outs
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Aug 2, 2017
Tougher words on academy pay are welcome, but we need action
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Aug 2, 2017
Toby Young’s flagship academy trust ditches ‘free school’ from its name
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Aug 2, 2017
Neil Carmichael takes job at political lobbying firm PLMR
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Aug 1, 2017
Ethnically mixed schools boost integration, but the lunchtime divide still exists
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Aug 1, 2017
RSC to take ‘unprecedented’ decision on whether a primary can leave its trust
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Aug 1, 2017
Free school that omits arts and humanities rated ‘inadequate’
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Jul 31, 2017
Dropping practicals from science A-level grades gets mixed response, says Ofqual report
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Jul 28, 2017
Unions: DfE must ‘fully fund’ schools to offer higher pay rises
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Jul 28, 2017
Ofsted prepares to prosecute four illegal schools which refuse to close
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Jul 28, 2017
Examiners disagree on review marks in 72% of sample scripts
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Jul 27, 2017
DfE toughens up rules over academy trust executive pay
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Jul 27, 2017
DfE leans on free school that entered no Year 11s for GCSEs
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Jul 27, 2017
Councils open special free schools applications, as more pupils go private
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Jul 27, 2017
More trainee teachers than ever are entering via school-led route
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Jul 27, 2017
Academies overspent by £280m last year
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Jul 27, 2017
Durand blocked critical Ofsted report to ‘keep EFA at bay’, court told
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Jul 26, 2017
Government finally confirms U-turn on free primary school breakfasts policy
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Jul 26, 2017
Academy trust boss appointed as new South West RSC
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Jul 26, 2017
Long-term disadvantaged pupils are slipping further behind peers, study finds
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Jul 26, 2017
New education fund for Grenfell Tower survivors
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Jul 26, 2017
Labour: More than 600,000 pupils taught by unqualified teachers
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Jul 26, 2017
Up to 93,000 retired teachers underpaid by £35m after Capita pensions blunder
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Jul 25, 2017
The hidden schooling crisis for Gypsy, Roma and Irish traveller pupils
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Jul 25, 2017
Astrea Academy Trust hands 2% pay rise to all teachers
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Jul 24, 2017
Leaked list reveals winners of Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund
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Jul 24, 2017
Change to EBacc measure breaks DfE’s own rules
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Jul 24, 2017
Nearly a third of pupils leave primary school unable to swim
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Jul 24, 2017
Academy chain rapped for employing trust leaders off payroll
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Jul 21, 2017
Midlands MAT handed financial notice over ‘significant failings’
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Jul 21, 2017
Single textbook approved for maths mastery teaching
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Jul 21, 2017
UTCs excluded from EBacc target, but not league tables
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Jul 21, 2017
Government presses on with non-graduate teaching apprenticeship
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Jul 20, 2017
Private schools rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted reach seven-year high
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Jul 20, 2017
Smith review: Not enough capacity for maths to 18
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Jul 20, 2017
We need a Bacc for the future, not a curriculum from 1904
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Jul 20, 2017
DfE planning changes to Progress 8 in 2018
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Jul 20, 2017
Rate of permanent exclusions increases for second year in a row
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Jul 20, 2017
Controversial superhead Liam Nolan takes the helm at new school
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Jul 20, 2017
Half of permanently excluded pupils have a mental illness, report finds
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Jul 20, 2017
9 key findings from the DfE’s accounts: Bonuses, £200k pay-offs, and rising PFI debts
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Jul 19, 2017
Heads told to expect end to ‘secure fit’ writing test model from 2017-18
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Jul 19, 2017
Schools convert for cash, and 11 other academy trust survey findings
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Jul 19, 2017
DfE writes off £500k loss on defunct Lilac Sky academy trust
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Jul 19, 2017
DfE doubles funding for German language exchange programme
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Jul 19, 2017
Overdue debts double, and 4 other interesting things from the EFA’s annual accounts
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Jul 19, 2017
Most teachers and parents fear EBacc could narrow curriculum
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Jul 19, 2017
Technical tweak means EBacc target is actually delayed by SEVEN years
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Jul 19, 2017
Government EBacc consultation response – the 8 main points
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Jul 19, 2017
Headline EBacc attainment measure to be replaced by average points score
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Jul 19, 2017
It’s official: 90 per cent EBacc target pushed back 5 years
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Jul 19, 2017
Education committee chair Halfon to prioritise evidence from teachers and pupils
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Jul 19, 2017
High-performing schools should partner with struggling neighbours to boost standards, report claims
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Jul 19, 2017
Sports premium to double – but too late for many schools’ budgets
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Jul 18, 2017
The NFF is saved – but major issues still remain for schools funding
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Jul 18, 2017
Experienced teachers less likely to trust Ofsted, and five more attitude survey findings
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Jul 18, 2017
Children do better if their family attends parents’ evenings
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Jul 18, 2017
Performance-related pay costs too much for excellent schools, says CEO
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Jul 18, 2017
How schools can develop a strong curriculum
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Jul 18, 2017
£1.3bn extra funding is ‘just a sticking plaster’, MPs warn
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Jul 17, 2017
Free schools and healthy pupil scheme suffer under £1.3 billion funding boost
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Jul 17, 2017
Justine Greening pledges additional £1.3 billion for schools
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Jul 17, 2017
Lucy Powell joins two teachers in education committee line-up
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Jul 17, 2017
Homework contracts raise standards, report claims
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Jul 17, 2017
Revealed: Sub-regional improvement boards set up to advise RSCs
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Jul 17, 2017
Education has ‘done nothing’ to improve social mobility
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Jul 16, 2017
Sheffield school to sack TAs then rehire as ‘teaching fellows’
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Jul 16, 2017
Labour MP Emma Hardy elected to education select committee
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Jul 15, 2017
Academy in shadow of Grenfell could stay shut until Easter
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Jul 15, 2017
Academy bosses increasingly use ‘GAG pooling’ to take control of funds
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Jul 15, 2017
PISA tests for 5-year-olds – organiser defends pilot amid pupil pressure fears
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Jul 14, 2017
Investigation: Government delay on consultations totals over EIGHT years
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Jul 14, 2017
Two organisations will deliver government’s new ‘school leader’ qualifications
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Jul 14, 2017
Three stars and a wish: my end-of-year report card for the DfE
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Jul 14, 2017
Schools Week summer book giveaway – win education books!
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Jul 14, 2017
Key academies spending document delayed… AGAIN
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Jul 13, 2017
Wilshaw’s £15k bonus, and 6 more Ofsted annual report findings
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Jul 13, 2017
Bids sought for £10m foreign teacher recruitment drive
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Jul 13, 2017
DfE amends grammar schools research after complaint to stats watchdog
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Jul 13, 2017
Two schools fail cladding fire safety tests
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Jul 13, 2017
Ofsted misses short inspections target for second year running
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Jul 13, 2017
Secondary school pupil numbers to rise by a fifth as population bulge hits
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Jul 13, 2017
Teachers ‘70% more likely’ to leave schools in poorer areas
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Jul 13, 2017
The 6 key policy recommendations from the Social Market Foundation’s inequality study
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Jul 13, 2017
Former minister Robert Halfon elected as education select committee chair
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Jul 12, 2017
Don’t throw the SATs out with their administrator
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Jul 12, 2017
Private-state partnership project fails to collect necessary data
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Jul 12, 2017
‘Broadly feasible’ to rate governors on nine metrics, study finds
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Jul 12, 2017
Greening wants departure from ‘punitive intervention’ in struggling schools
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Jul 12, 2017
Greening becomes third government minister to launch ‘careers strategy’
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Jul 12, 2017
£2.2m for 11 new research schools takes total to 22
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Jul 12, 2017
Public ranks comprehensive schools as best for social mobility
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Jul 12, 2017
Free schools are a cost-effective option
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Jul 11, 2017
Five graphs that reveal why the 1% pay cap puts the education system at “substantial risk”
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Jul 11, 2017
Reform grammar schools or pull their funding, senior MP tells ministers
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Jul 11, 2017
Teachers’ pay cap maintained at 1% for 2017/18
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Jul 10, 2017
DfE doesn’t know how many free schools have sprinklers
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Jul 10, 2017
Multi-academy trusts are great for career progression
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Jul 10, 2017
Over 90% of investigations into academy finances are a result of whistleblowers
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Jul 10, 2017
Pupils fly four-seater plane as part of year-long STEM initiative
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Jul 9, 2017
Nominations open for Global Teacher Prize with $1 million pot
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Jul 9, 2017
What can school leaders do to improve career prospects for Muslim girls?
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Jul 9, 2017
Government invites bidders for new ‘innovative’ teacher training fund
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Jul 9, 2017
Year 8 pupil spends the day as headteacher of Highgate School
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Jul 8, 2017
School and council team up to restore medieval building using £50,000 lottery grant
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Jul 8, 2017
Investigation: Schools face postcode lottery in free school meals take-up
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Jul 8, 2017
Teaching isn’t about being on the right team
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Jul 8, 2017
Academy to slash breaks and extend day to meet new GCSE demands
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Jul 8, 2017
Six MPs stand for election as education committee chair
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Jul 7, 2017
Nominations open for RSC headteacher board elections
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Jul 7, 2017
EEF: Debate-style teaching boosts pupils’ progress
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Jul 7, 2017
Ofsted gives 700 sponsored academies a fresh start
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Jul 7, 2017
Ministers finally set to shut down Perry Beeches
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Jul 7, 2017
Home education doubles, with schools left to ‘pick up pieces’ when it fails
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Jul 7, 2017
Teachers turn to think tanks over DfE for schools research
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Jul 6, 2017
English schools to join pilot of PISA tests for 5 year olds
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Jul 6, 2017
Charity wants to bin exams at 16 for five-year ‘phase’
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Jul 6, 2017
Extra £1.3 billion needed to plug hole in school budgets, EPI warns
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Jul 5, 2017
Minister confirms U-turn on plans to scrap universal infant lunches
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Jul 4, 2017
Should pupils have to wear school ties?
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Jul 4, 2017
Former education ministers to run for select committee chair
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Jul 4, 2017
Key stage 2 SATs results: 61% achieve ‘expected standard’
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Jul 4, 2017
Scaled scores for 2017 key stage 2 SATs announced
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Jul 4, 2017
Academy facing ‘crippling’ £21 million PFI costs will now close
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Jul 3, 2017
Nick Gibb takes on SRE reform in expanded ministerial role
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Jul 3, 2017
Simon Lebus resigns as Cambridge Assessment chief executive
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Jul 3, 2017
Schools face hefty fines for data breaches under new EU laws
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Jul 3, 2017
Academy boss: 20 schools is ‘too small’ for a multi-academy trust
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Jul 3, 2017
Grammar supporters ‘wrong’ to think reasoning paper can’t be learnt, says neuroscientist
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Jul 2, 2017
Detentions are a kind of ‘violence’ against pupils, says expert
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Jul 1, 2017
Schools must plan curriculum and be able to show inspectors, says Harford
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Jul 1, 2017
UTCs want ‘best fit’ pupils
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Jul 1, 2017
Critical Lilac Sky trust finance warning kept under wraps for months
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Jun 30, 2017
Minister met with key studio school officials to discuss ‘review’ of model
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Jun 30, 2017
New guide for schools on how to make the best use of teaching assistants
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Jun 30, 2017
Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, Ofsted
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Jun 30, 2017
New GCSEs force curriculum trade-off
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Jun 30, 2017
Revealed: Pupils’ lives at risk after fire safety breaches at illegal schools
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Jun 30, 2017
High-attaining poorer pupils are underperforming at sponsored academies, new study finds
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Jun 30, 2017
Chain Effects 2017: Which academy trusts are well above average?
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Jun 30, 2017
Pupils who are extreme internet users more likely to be bullied, report warns
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Jun 30, 2017
Schools warned to expect drop in rate of English literature top grades
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Jun 29, 2017
Academy trust broke rules over CEO’s £8,000 four-star hotel stays
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Jun 29, 2017
Schools go ‘supersize’ to cope with population growth
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Jun 29, 2017
Free school meal take-up lowest on record, and 4 more census findings
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Jun 29, 2017
Academy facing closure over ‘crippling’ £21 million PFI costs
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Jun 29, 2017
Durand Academy Trust to have funding terminated in 12 months
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Jun 28, 2017
Schools get right to appeal GCSE and A-level ‘marking errors’
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Jun 28, 2017
Government to review 1% teacher pay cap
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Jun 28, 2017
Schools over four-storeys high to have cladding tests
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Jun 28, 2017
School improvement ‘failing’ at Academy Trust of Melksham, says Ofsted
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Jun 28, 2017
Top DfE civil servant appointed as new East of England RSC
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Jun 28, 2017
Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’, social mobility study finds
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Jun 28, 2017
Police arrests over stolen maths A-level exam papers
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Jun 27, 2017
Mental health funding blunder corrected by government
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Jun 27, 2017
Setting the record straight on the Edexcel A-level exam 'leaks'
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Jun 27, 2017
Schools won't have budgets cut under funding formula, Greening confirms
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Jun 27, 2017
Global education competition selects three UK finalists
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Jun 27, 2017
May gives £67 per teacher for mental health training
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Jun 27, 2017
MATs dodge recruitment challenges by parachuting teachers into needy schools
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Jun 27, 2017
Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools
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Jun 26, 2017
Spielman warns sixth form colleges about drop in Ofsted grades
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Jun 26, 2017
DfE u-turn over school fire sprinklers
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Jun 25, 2017
Northern Rocks 2017: What we learned at the annual conference
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Jun 25, 2017
UK's top language teachers recognised at annual German Teacher Awards
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Jun 24, 2017
Al-Madinah free school rebrands, but can't shake financial troubles
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Jun 24, 2017
Homework habits: what we have learned at Michaela
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Jun 24, 2017
DfE orders fire safety checks to identify schools ‘at risk’ after Grenfell blaze
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Jun 23, 2017
Spielman says inspectors will look ‘more closely’ at schools’ curriculums
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Jun 23, 2017
Trust’s shorter summer holiday policy causes rise in term-time absence
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Jun 23, 2017
Teachers’ bravery praised as schools unite after Grenfell trauma
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Jun 23, 2017
Silence (from politicians) is golden
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Jun 23, 2017
Jill Wood, Headteacher, Little London Primary School
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Jun 23, 2017
Private religious schools flout equality laws – but remain open
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Jun 23, 2017
EEF: New trials launched to test school careers programmes
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Jun 23, 2017
The latest workforce data shows government should care much more about teacher retention
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Jun 22, 2017
Revealed: The ‘sausage-machine schools’ pushing new teachers out the profession
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Jun 22, 2017
Teachers leaving faster than ever – and 10 other school workforce findings
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Jun 22, 2017
Poor teenagers more likely to drop university ambitions, study finds
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Jun 22, 2017
Will the Conservatives really remove the faith school 50% cap?
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Jun 21, 2017
What happened to education policy in the Queen’s speech?
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Jun 21, 2017
Queen’s speech: School leaders welcome axing of new grammar schools
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Jun 21, 2017
Queen’s speech: Government will ensure ‘fairer funding’ for schools
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Jun 21, 2017
DfE ‘must drop’ £5 million inspection funding for faith groups
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Jun 20, 2017
May ‘drops’ plans to axe free meals for infants from Queen’s Speech
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Jun 20, 2017
Unions demand ‘urgent reassurances’ on school fire safety after Grenfell blaze
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Jun 20, 2017
NUT staff at London school to strike outside DfE
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Jun 20, 2017
Investigation: Only 1 in 3 new schools has sprinklers – and ‘expectation’ to fit them due to be removed from DfE policy
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Jun 19, 2017
Calls for IT qualification to be saved as computing take-up stalls
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Jun 19, 2017
Should we base education policy on evidence or values?
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Jun 19, 2017
Teacher interventions in pupil fights cost thousands in compensation
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Jun 19, 2017
Racial hate crimes in schools surge in wake of Brexit
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Jun 18, 2017
How to make your school more LGBT-inclusive
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Jun 18, 2017
More than half of MPs educated in state comprehensives
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Jun 18, 2017
Meet the teachers elected as MPs
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Jun 17, 2017
Education graduates earn more than lawyers, figures show
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Jun 17, 2017
Colouring in the curriculum
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Jun 17, 2017
Former DfE boss knighted and school leaders recognised in Queen's birthday honours
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Jun 16, 2017
Purdah is over, but it has paralysed DfE for 6 months in 2 years
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Jun 16, 2017
Is the grammar school nightmare finally over?
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Jun 16, 2017
Government urged to show it ‘has teeth’ as academy scandals stack up
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Jun 16, 2017
EEF: New trials include ban on grading pupils' work
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Jun 16, 2017
Minister expected to oversee relationships education reform opposed same-sex marriage
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Jun 15, 2017
What does a no-majority government mean for education?
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Jun 15, 2017
2017 exams: Progress 8 driving drop in languages, and 4 more findings
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Jun 15, 2017
AS-level exam entries plunge by 42% after government reforms
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Jun 15, 2017
Removal of iGCSEs from league tables prompts surge in English GCSE entries
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Jun 15, 2017
Entries to EBacc subjects peak as fewer pupils take creative subjects
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Jun 15, 2017
Ofsted reveals plan to give schools up to 15 days’ notice of inspections
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Jun 15, 2017
Ofqual issues exams advice after Grenfell Tower blaze
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Jun 14, 2017
Pupils less likely to get first choice secondary place as ‘baby bulge’ moves upwards
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Jun 13, 2017
Pupils more alert in afternoon, study finds
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Jun 13, 2017
Nick Gibb stays as schools minister in May reshuffle
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Jun 12, 2017
Justine Greening stays as education secretary in May reshuffle
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Jun 11, 2017
Schools must be more vigilant on Islamism than ever
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Jun 11, 2017
Grammars advocate resigns as PM’s adviser
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Jun 10, 2017
Grammars advocate resigns as PM's adviser
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Jun 10, 2017
Church of England sidesteps government rules over multi-academy trust control
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Jun 10, 2017
Pupils with special needs waiting for school place more than doubles
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Jun 10, 2017
What happens to grammar schools in a minority Conservative government?
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Jun 9, 2017
Election 2017: education's winners and losers
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Jun 9, 2017
The NCTL was created in a rush and it’s time to reform it
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Jun 9, 2017
NCTL processes are robust but must be applied correctly
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Jun 9, 2017
Private school with £35,000 yearly fees looks for £3.50-an-hour apprentice to tend grounds
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Jun 9, 2017
Long read: The inside story of the Trojan Horse trial collapse
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Jun 9, 2017
Brexit fallout stunts recruitment for first ‘super-SCITT’
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Jun 9, 2017
Education committee chair Neil Carmichael loses seat as Justine Greening clings on
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Jun 9, 2017
Election night 2017: The constituencies to watch if you work in education
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Jun 8, 2017
Bookies predict education MPs heading back to parliament
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Jun 8, 2017
Catholic Church backs down on faith ‘certificate’ court challenge
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Jun 8, 2017
One in five schools face disruption as voters go to the polls
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Jun 8, 2017
NHS groups backtrack on proposals to restrict autism diagnoses
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Jun 7, 2017
Accounts reveal shocking financial mismanagement at defunct academy trust
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Jun 7, 2017
Death of 4-year-old boy prompts calls for review of schools’ absence approach
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Jun 6, 2017
2017 scaled scores for key stage 1 tests published
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Jun 6, 2017
Oasis academy trust denies encouraging parents to ‘home educate’ disruptive pupils
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Jun 5, 2017
University technical colleges plan to switch recruitment age to 13
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Jun 3, 2017
Breakfast confusion continues as Greening suggests only 1 in 5 pupils will benefit
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Jun 2, 2017
UTC applications surge after letters sent to parents
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Jun 2, 2017
Tributes paid to superhead Amanda Phillips who died after a fall
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Jun 1, 2017
IFS: Parties’ spending plans leave sixth forms with 10% less than schools
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Jun 1, 2017
South west RSC Rebecca Clark resigns to join Ark academy chain
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May 31, 2017
Trojan Horse: NCTL drops disciplinary case against 5 teachers
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May 30, 2017
Four in five reject Tory plan to lift faith admissions cap
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May 30, 2017
MAT for excluded pupils allowed to expand despite worst Ofsted
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May 30, 2017
Scaled-up literacy scheme fails to produce positive results
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May 30, 2017
Tory plan to ban school expansions is ‘not feasible’, experts warn
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May 30, 2017
‘Doughnut’ catchment areas could be new Tory plan
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May 29, 2017
First medical needs-only MAT to open
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May 28, 2017
Affluent pupils less likely to go to university if they do National Citizen Service
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May 28, 2017
Political visits in schools can be ruled unlawful
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May 27, 2017
Conservatives promise new routes to becoming a teacher
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May 27, 2017
Investigation: DfE ‘hid’ damaging Lord Nash academy cost emails
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May 26, 2017
Tutor agency claims it has found a term-time holiday ‘loophole’
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May 26, 2017
Tory manifesto pledge is for only 17 extra free schools
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May 26, 2017
Hackers steal Edmodo users’ details
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May 26, 2017
Think tanks reveal true costs of election manifesto pledges
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May 26, 2017
IPPR report calls for UTC changes
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May 25, 2017
DRET appoints new CEO, with sponsor David Ross installed as chair
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May 25, 2017
Schools urged to remind staff of ’emergency plans’ after Manchester bomb scare
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May 25, 2017
UKIP pledges to open new grammar school ‘in every town’
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May 25, 2017
Poor verbal skills weaken 30,000 pupils’ GSCEs
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May 25, 2017
Conservatives back-track on £60m for primary school breakfasts
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May 24, 2017
Supreme Court rules on wages of striking staff
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May 24, 2017
Conservatives’ free breakfast pledge ‘costed at just 7p per meal’
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May 23, 2017
Schools should contact exam boards after Manchester terrorist attack
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May 23, 2017
Schools spend thousands of pounds on ‘question banks’ to improve GCSEs and SATs scores
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May 23, 2017
Teach First criticised for PwC job deferral partnership
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May 22, 2017
Investigation: How apprenticeship levy costs are affecting supply teachers
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May 22, 2017
Academies specialising in excluded pupils under pressure to grow
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May 22, 2017
ICT qualifications still in chaos due to delays
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May 21, 2017
Struggling UTC opens its own 11-14 feeder school to boost numbers
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May 20, 2017
Schools told to develop ‘hack plan’ to avoid NHS cyber attack
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May 20, 2017
Exodus of children in care from London – but why?
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May 19, 2017
Government to step in over supply teacher costs
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May 19, 2017
DfE believes fewer teachers in creative subjects will be needed in the future
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May 19, 2017
Inspiration Trust to change turnaround approach with ‘knowledge-led’ curriculum
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May 19, 2017
Conservative manifesto: Infant lunches scrapped, but schools get £4bn
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May 18, 2017
Paul Whiteman confirmed as new NAHT general secretary
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May 17, 2017
Governor ‘strike’ over school funding set to go ahead
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May 17, 2017
Liberal Democrats would allow new council maintained schools
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May 17, 2017
Liberal Democrat manifesto: The full list of schools policies
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May 17, 2017
Lib Dems release manifesto pledge costs – including £450m for free school meals (which is half of Labour’s costs)
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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: Plans to let councils ‘run schools’ dropped
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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: The nerdy details
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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: Teacher pay bargaining pledge dropped
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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: the full list of schools policies
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May 16, 2017
Bolton Wanderers Free school governor who claimed £3,250 remains secret
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May 16, 2017
Teacher drop-out rates highest in EBacc subjects, study finds
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May 16, 2017
Greens pick troubled Isle of Wight academy for education policy launch
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May 15, 2017
Investigation: Flagship 16-19 free schools under threat
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May 15, 2017
137 academy trusts miss EFA’s accounts deadline
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May 15, 2017
Gibb fails to resolve summer-born admissions despite promises
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May 14, 2017
Birmingham council ‘encourages respect for human rights’ in wake of Trojan Horse
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May 14, 2017
Low-cost private schools ‘just waiting’ to enter English market
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May 13, 2017
Secondary moderns have dramatically improved their Ofsted grades
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May 12, 2017
Tory areas worst hit by National Funding Formula
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May 12, 2017
Pregnant pupils are being moved to PRUs as cuts close services
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May 12, 2017
Full list of schools policies in leaked Labour manifesto
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May 11, 2017
Leaked Labour draft manifesto reveals national pay bargaining for teachers
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May 10, 2017
Labour Party officially launches its ‘National Education Service’
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May 10, 2017
Liberal Democrats promise to ‘protect’ school funding
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May 10, 2017
Labour pledges £25bn schools spending under new National Education Service
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May 9, 2017
Unions call for AET to halt £2.6m caretaker cuts
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May 9, 2017
Country’s best-paid primary head Sir Craig Tunstall suspended
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May 9, 2017
IFS: Labour’s free meals plan will cost £950m and breakfast clubs might be more effective
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May 9, 2017
Anti-grammar schools campaign launches crowdfunding drive
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May 9, 2017
Troubled UTC Plymouth pauses recruitment at 14
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May 8, 2017
Three-quarters of primary leaders lack confidence in SATs, survey finds
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May 8, 2017
Brexit will be ‘top challenge’ for schools in coming years
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May 8, 2017
Meet the teachers running in the General Election 2017
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May 8, 2017
School leaders want £200 funding uplift per sixth-former
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May 8, 2017
Low-attainers ‘harshly’ marked in SATs assessments, study finds
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May 7, 2017
Teachers ‘unable to prepare’ as DfE drags feet over approved qualifications
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May 7, 2017
Ofsted inspectors receive no training on secondary moderns
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May 6, 2017
DfE refuses to release investigations into high-profile academy trusts
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May 6, 2017
Pupils face 40-mile commute as benefits cap pushes families out of London
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May 6, 2017
Headteacher board face chaos as elections loom
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May 5, 2017
RSCs under fire after ordering interventions in coasting schools
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May 5, 2017
Corbyn fails to dish up evidence on free meals as councils admit there is none
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May 5, 2017
Grammar schools ditch ‘tutor-proof’ 11-plus provider
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May 5, 2017
Poor pupils with same SATs as richer peers do worse in grammar schools test
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May 5, 2017
David Ross Education Trust given ‘final warning’ over job cuts
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May 4, 2017
Tories claim school finances need ‘strong, stable leadership’ as MPs attack funding formula
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May 3, 2017
Most UTCs half empty as pupil numbers dwindle
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May 2, 2017
Paul Whiteman nominated as next general secretary of NAHT
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May 2, 2017
Boarding school places for Syrian refugee children remain unfilled
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May 2, 2017
MPs urge cuts review as budgets affect school mental health services
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May 2, 2017
Fact check: Did the Conservatives fulfil their 2015 schools manifesto promises?
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May 1, 2017
The 13 ways MPs want primary tests improved
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May 1, 2017
Stop judging primary schools on one year’s SATs results, say MPs
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May 1, 2017
Corbyn: Labour will let councils build new schools and take over academies
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Apr 30, 2017
Corbyn: We are brave enough to reverse £3bn school cuts
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Apr 30, 2017
School business leaders ‘not sleeping at night’ over funding cuts
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Apr 30, 2017
A-level language grades will increase to correct historic undergrading
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Apr 29, 2017
Heads consider shortening school week in protest over cuts
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Apr 29, 2017
Election ‘highly likely’ to delay national funding formula, NAHT warns
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Apr 28, 2017
The academy chains given £10m ‘northern powerhouse’ cash – but failed to help any schools
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Apr 28, 2017
Ofsted removes date from new ‘good’ logo – but why?
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Apr 28, 2017
Election disrupts free school funding agreements
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Apr 28, 2017
Low ratings for grammar-sponsored academies
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Apr 28, 2017
Private school fees rise again, and 3 more ISC census findings
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Apr 28, 2017
Heads leave large multi-academy trusts faster than other school types
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Apr 28, 2017
Justine Greening pulls out of NAHT conference
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Apr 27, 2017
Heads back CofE call to ban parents withdrawing children from RE
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Apr 27, 2017
Open new selective schools in MATs only, urges Carmichael
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Apr 27, 2017
Replace bursaries with ‘forgivable fees’ to boost teacher numbers, report claims
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Apr 27, 2017
Funding system for new schools ‘increasingly incoherent’, say MPs
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Apr 26, 2017
Labour pledges to bring back EMA with corporation tax hike
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Apr 25, 2017
£100k per council would abolish holiday hunger, MPs claim
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Apr 25, 2017
Corbyn 4-day bank holiday pledge ‘includes teachers’
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Apr 23, 2017
DfE to underwrite salary for free school ‘heads in waiting’ – and could even employ them in department
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Apr 21, 2017
Ofqual ditches plans to regulate ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ subjects
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Apr 21, 2017
RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust
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Apr 21, 2017
Corbyn promises to halt rise of ‘super-size’ classes in latest Labour schools pledge
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Apr 20, 2017
Phonics boosts reading accuracy, study finds
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Apr 20, 2017
Grammar schools white paper won’t be published until after election
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Apr 20, 2017
Academy chain shortage in the north, while south prospers
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Apr 20, 2017
Corbyn accuses May of ‘broken promises’ over school funding
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Apr 19, 2017
PISA wellbeing tables 2017: UK pupils among unhappiest in the world
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Apr 19, 2017
Pupils are less confident in countries with selective schools, OECD finds
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Apr 19, 2017
First-choice primary school places increase in high-demand areas
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Apr 18, 2017
Teacher trainers told they can recruit 25% more trainees
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Apr 18, 2017
Schools urged to coincide inset days with elections
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Apr 18, 2017
More than 1,000 schools given a mental health ‘point of contact’
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Apr 18, 2017
NUT demands funding formula response before election
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Apr 18, 2017
Snap General Election 2017: 5 key things schools need to know
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Apr 18, 2017
NUT threatens strike over teacher pay
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Apr 17, 2017
Three in four unable to access mental health support for pupils
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Apr 17, 2017
Teachers want school asbestos removed by 2028
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Apr 17, 2017
Vote on boycott of primary tests postponed
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Apr 16, 2017
NUT to seek summer term strike action over school cuts
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Apr 15, 2017
Half of young teachers planning to leave within 5 years
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Apr 15, 2017
NUT preps for legal action against ‘grammar streams’
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Apr 14, 2017
Ethnic teachers given less challenging responsibilities because of their skin colour, research finds
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Apr 14, 2017
Justine Greening: schools will not need to track 'ordinary working families'
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Apr 13, 2017
Greening: Schools will not need to track ‘ordinary working families’
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Apr 13, 2017
Greening defends grammars in speech about ‘ordinary working class’ children
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Apr 13, 2017
Government consults on definition of ‘ordinary working families’
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Apr 12, 2017
Don’t risk children’s potential with grammar school expansion, Bousted warns
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Apr 12, 2017
Thousands of examiners’ personal details stolen in AQA cyber-attack
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Apr 12, 2017
ATL votes to explore boycott of primary tests
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Apr 12, 2017
Grammar school among sponsors for 111 new free schools
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Apr 12, 2017
111 new free schools: The complete list
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Apr 12, 2017
REAch2’s spin-off academy trust renamed Astrea
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Apr 11, 2017
Former university leader appointed new Ofsted chair
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Apr 11, 2017
Teach safe sex to protect boys from cancer-causing HPV, says union
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Apr 11, 2017
Teachers trained via school-led routes more likely to go into classroom
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Apr 11, 2017
Snapchat and Facebook make it easier for pupils to abuse each other, teachers warn
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Apr 11, 2017
#ATLconf17: Union will lobby Greening over ‘excessive’ and ‘immoral’ academy CEO pay
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Apr 10, 2017
Police launch fraud inquiry at Baverstock Academy
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Apr 10, 2017
Primary schools forced to re-advertise headteacher roles
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Apr 10, 2017
Unions won’t go easy on grammar plans to win funding deal
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Apr 10, 2017
Schools invited to express interest in new £140m improvement fund
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Apr 10, 2017
Schools cut books and SEND spending as funding pressures bite
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Apr 10, 2017
Over 40 schools allowed to stop daily Christian worship
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Apr 9, 2017
Leicester must create 2,200 school places – in just one year
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Apr 8, 2017
Government ‘propping up’ free schools with loans
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Apr 8, 2017
Where will the next wave of free schools be? We still don’t know…
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Apr 7, 2017
A UTC that outsourced teaching says government knew about deal
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Apr 7, 2017
Home Office doesn’t know how many foreign teachers face deportation under new £35k salary rules
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Apr 7, 2017
Grammar school teachers are being singled out to feature in a “government-led” TV campaign, although the Department for Education (DfE) says it has not commissioned a production company
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Apr 7, 2017
Six more schools unveiled as research hubs – taking total to 11
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Apr 7, 2017
English A-level applications drop 35% due to new ‘harder’ GCSEs
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Apr 6, 2017
Long-awaited DfE board minutes ‘fail to set example’ on transparency
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Apr 6, 2017
Half of heads unaware of National Reference Test, and 5 more findings from Ofqual perception data
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Apr 6, 2017
Ofsted launches official ‘good’ logo in policy U-turn
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Apr 6, 2017
Union boss backs Corbyn’s free meals policy, but demands more school funding
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Apr 6, 2017
Jon Platt loses landmark term-time holiday legal challenge
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Apr 6, 2017
Schools have 12 months to publish gender pay gap statistics
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Apr 6, 2017
UTC that ‘knocked pupils’ aspirations’ put in special measures
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Apr 5, 2017
Baseline provider ‘surprised’ at DfE preference for formal reception test
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Apr 5, 2017
Union demands say in teacher apprenticeships to avoid ‘exploitation’
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Apr 3, 2017
Greening heralds £2.4bn school capital funding, but money isn’t new
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Apr 3, 2017
Disastrous’ change in teaching training causes 7% drop in numbers
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Apr 2, 2017
Pupils to book lessons via app at new studio school
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Apr 2, 2017
School ‘terrifically proud’ of pupil who designed new £1 coin two years ago
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Apr 2, 2017
Parents ‘must pay’ for sports teams at Kent school
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Apr 1, 2017
Bolton Wanderers Free School under fire over promises in DfE application forms
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Apr 1, 2017
Ofqual omits ‘strong’ grade from new GCSE guidance
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Mar 31, 2017
‘Financial challenges’ at David Ross Education Trust prompt staff cuts
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Mar 31, 2017
David Carter: There’s no such thing as an ‘untouchable’ school
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Mar 31, 2017
Ofsted considers tracking Facebook and Twitter to check on schools
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Mar 31, 2017
12-minute lessons best for pupil memories, study finds
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Mar 31, 2017
Primary assessment consultation: The 5 key proposals
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Mar 30, 2017
‘Post-Brexit Britain needs investment in teachers’ says Greening
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Mar 30, 2017
Greening proposes scrapping KS1 SATs
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Mar 30, 2017
Sending letters to sixth-formers boosts chance of attending top university
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Mar 29, 2017
Government study reveals minimum A-level class size
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Mar 29, 2017
ECDL dropped from 2018 league tables – 12 months earlier than planned
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Mar 29, 2017
MPs: Government showing ‘collective delusion’ over funding cuts
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Mar 29, 2017
DfE introduces two-tier GCSE pass rate: ‘standard’ and ‘strong’
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Mar 28, 2017
Chief executive appointed at DfE’s new £2bn free school property company
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Mar 28, 2017
Goodbye, Education Funding Agency. Hello, Education & Skills Funding Agency
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Mar 28, 2017
Schools North East launches mock disciplinary hearings amid dwindling LA support
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Mar 28, 2017
Greenwood Academies Trust set to lose two schools
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Mar 27, 2017
Deliver sex education as part of compulsory PSHE say subject leaders
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Mar 27, 2017
Nearly half of schools fail to offer work experience to SEND pupils
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Mar 27, 2017
Burgers and weddings: how schools are making money in tight times
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Mar 26, 2017
Former trust boss’s new private school closes after six months
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Mar 25, 2017
Four academies approved to hire pupils as apprentices and lend staff to train others
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Mar 25, 2017
ATT chief executive broke rules over chair sacking, EFA investigation finds
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Mar 24, 2017
Bennett behaviour review: the 5 policy recommendations
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Mar 24, 2017
Council intervenes over failing academy – but told by Ofsted it isn’t responsible
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Mar 24, 2017
Heads say ‘no’ to Theresa May’s grammar ‘conversion’ consultation
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Mar 24, 2017
Bolton Wanderers Free School paid £600k in rent and bills to football club
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Mar 24, 2017
May’s adviser leading ministers ‘by the nose’ over grammars, former deputy PM claims
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Mar 23, 2017
Nicky Morgan, Nick Clegg and Lucy Powell to lead grammar schools debate
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Mar 23, 2017
Your quick-and-easy guide to the new ‘National Education Union’
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Mar 22, 2017
NUT and ATL members vote to form new ‘super union’
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Mar 22, 2017
Unions demand more school cash as IFS warns of funding formula uncertainty
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Mar 22, 2017
Northern Education Trust blasted by Ofsted despite taking over ‘untouchable’ schools
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Mar 21, 2017
GCSE and A level exam appeals drop by a quarter
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Mar 21, 2017
One in 3 pupils on university access scheme privately educated
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Mar 20, 2017
One in 3 pupils on university access scheme privately educated
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Mar 20, 2017
Today’s education questions in parliament: 3 things we learned
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Mar 20, 2017
Private school closes 9 days early for Easter due to cashflow issues
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Mar 17, 2017
Pupils moved in GCSE year from maintained schools as much as MATs
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Mar 17, 2017
RSC offered academy trust a deal to limit ‘reputational damage’
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Mar 17, 2017
Academy CEO pay: Salaries soar, but who comes out on top?
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Mar 17, 2017
EPI report: National Funding Formula shifts cash away from poorest schools, and 5 other findings
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Mar 17, 2017
A-level attainment gap revealed in new ‘disadvantage’ measure
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Mar 16, 2017
Ofsted email scam asks people to ‘confirm’ Paypal details
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Mar 16, 2017
Free school A-level dropouts among highest, and 3 more findings from 16-18 league tables
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Mar 16, 2017
Senior figures resign at David Ross Education Trust – including David Blunkett
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Mar 16, 2017
Grammar schools: Tories could delay vote on ban until after 2020 election
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Mar 16, 2017
Pupils face ’40-week’ referral delays, and 4 other key points from first mental health inquiry
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Mar 14, 2017
Christian school group to hold talk on ‘danger’ of ‘challenging homophobia’
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Mar 13, 2017
Government went ‘hell for leather’ on free schools, admits DfE top boss
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Mar 13, 2017
Rye Studio School to convert to sixth form
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Mar 13, 2017
No decline in teacher’s average A-levels, despite squeezed pay
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Mar 13, 2017
Rayner: Labour has ‘will and vision’ to improve education
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Mar 11, 2017
Lower 11-plus pass mark for poorer pupils, government tells grammars
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Mar 11, 2017
Don’t take decisions which harm other trusts, Carter warns academy leaders
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Mar 10, 2017
ASCL 2017: Justine Greening heckled by heads over grammar plans
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Mar 10, 2017
Education Fellowship trust gives up all 12 schools over poor performance
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Mar 10, 2017
Football club’s free school to close with £500,000 debt
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Mar 10, 2017
£215 million to adapt building for SEND pupils won’t go to most needy
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Mar 10, 2017
Pension row delays Bright Tribe free school takeover
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Mar 10, 2017
Ofsted drops letters praising ‘exceptional’ heads
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Mar 10, 2017
Ofsted announces school curriculum investigation amid gaming ‘scandal’
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Mar 10, 2017
Progress 8 still too similar to old GCSE measure – and 5 other findings from EPI report
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Mar 10, 2017
Class sizes pushing 40 as cuts bite, union claims
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Mar 10, 2017
Grammar school taxis could cost £5k a pupil
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Mar 9, 2017
Low-attainers at partially selective schools do worse at GCSE, study finds
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Mar 9, 2017
Budget 2017: The 5 things schools need to know
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Mar 8, 2017
More heads consider resigning over funding cuts
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Mar 7, 2017
Ofsted ‘double inspection’ pilot thwarted after inspectors ‘spoke frequently’
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Mar 7, 2017
Spielman: Inspection reliability study is ‘just first step’ of Ofsted research push
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Mar 7, 2017
Budget 2017: £536m for refurbs and new free schools, but doubts over 500 target
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Mar 6, 2017
Budget 2017: Free transport for grammar schools up to 15 miles away
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Mar 6, 2017
Council education boss appointed new RSC for East Midlands and Humber
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Mar 6, 2017
Delayed review of older teachers requests extra evidence
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Mar 6, 2017
Wealthy academy sponsors safeguard school trips amid funding squeeze
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Mar 6, 2017
Hundreds of schools use Uber-style apps to hire supply teachers
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Mar 5, 2017
National College no longer approves teacher training providers
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Mar 5, 2017
School cancels Friday afternoon classes to run scouts club
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Mar 4, 2017
Private special school places cost £480 million per year
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Mar 4, 2017
Schools to get £215m funding for SEND adaptations
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Mar 4, 2017
Muslim Council defends church schools in admissions row
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Mar 3, 2017
Fact Check: Is Brent Council the ‘first’ to allow multi-belief assemblies?
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Mar 3, 2017
Council launches investigation into benefits of private schools
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Mar 3, 2017
DfE funds £1m for Ofsted illegal schools taskforce
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Mar 3, 2017
Sir Michael Wilshaw joins board of Education Policy Institute
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Mar 2, 2017
Pupils could get right to opt out of sex education
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Mar 2, 2017
Ofsted inspectors urged to crack down on schools ‘off-rolling’ pupils
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Mar 2, 2017
Lord Baker: Colleges should visit schools ‘once a year’
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Mar 2, 2017
Government scraps longer school day pledge
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Mar 1, 2017
Sex education to be compulsory in all secondary schools
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Mar 1, 2017
Schools urged to allocate places using admission lotteries
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Mar 1, 2017
Hereford sixth form college first to become academy
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Mar 1, 2017
Greening announces £415m ‘sugar tax’ cash for new school sports facilities
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Feb 28, 2017
‘Far from clear’ if DfE can cope with academies expansion, warn MPs
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Feb 28, 2017
School leaders urge chancellor to plug education funding shortfall
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Feb 27, 2017
Poor pupils falling behind at secondary school, study finds
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Feb 27, 2017
Teachers work nearly 11 hours a day, landmark workload survey reveals
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Feb 24, 2017
Councils paid £100k to write to parents about UTCs
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Feb 23, 2017
Asbestos ‘significant cause for concern’ in over 100 schools
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Feb 23, 2017
Kathy Kirkham resigns as chief executive of Bright Tribe
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Feb 23, 2017
Bid to force ‘hostile’ schools to promote technical education succeeds
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Feb 22, 2017
Ofqual ‘extremely cautious’ about more primary testing changes
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Feb 22, 2017
NAO capital funding report: £6.7bn needed to rebuild crumbling schools, and 8 other key findings
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Feb 22, 2017
Unfilled spaces and £30m land deals – NAO takes aim at free schools
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Feb 22, 2017
Oasis director Andy Yarrow appointed chief executive of CfBT Schools Trust
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Feb 21, 2017
Give schools 12-month warning on policy changes, and 5 other education committee suggestions to solve recruitment crisis
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Feb 21, 2017
MPs call for national CPD ‘annual entitlement’ to boost teacher retention rates
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Feb 21, 2017
Government reviews pupil nationality check guidance after schools’ passport demands
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Feb 20, 2017
Proposals for pioneering ‘low cost’ private school in England revealed
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Feb 17, 2017
Emerging teacher pay gap threatens to ‘worsen recruitment crisis’
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Feb 17, 2017
Vicky Beer to stay on as RSC after departure U-turn
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Feb 17, 2017
Pupils able to request coursework re-marks from 2018
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Feb 16, 2017
Greening promises QTS won’t be scrapped, and 7 key findings from her College of Teaching conference speech
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Feb 16, 2017
Government considers council MAT for vulnerable Kent primaries
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Feb 15, 2017
What happened to the old technical schools?
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Feb 15, 2017
Make sex education compulsory to stop spread of STIs, say councils
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Feb 15, 2017
Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to £35m new site
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Feb 14, 2017
Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools
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Feb 13, 2017
Revealed: The academy trust behind a £200k severance deal
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Feb 13, 2017
Pathway to ‘chartered teacher status’ will open in 2018, says College of Teaching
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Feb 13, 2017
Pathway to ‘chartered teacher status’ will open in 2018, says College of Teaching
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Feb 13, 2017
Just 54 citizenship teachers were trained this year
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Feb 12, 2017
Two for-profit sponsors back out of academy market
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Feb 12, 2017
Teach First to move 40% of trainees to social opportunity areas
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Feb 11, 2017
Schools will not be forced to promote National Citizen Service – but it will still get £424m a year
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Feb 11, 2017
11 academy trusts close their doors
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Feb 11, 2017
Michael Gove: UTCs have failed
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Feb 10, 2017
Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore
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Feb 10, 2017
Booming academy transfer market pushes costs to potential £30m
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Feb 10, 2017
Schools forced to ‘reintegrate’ pupils after UTC and studio school closures
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Feb 10, 2017
School support staff ‘increasingly’ teaching lessons, union warns
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Feb 10, 2017
Performance-related pay criticised by thousands of teachers
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Feb 10, 2017
ASCL general secretary election results: Geoff Barton vs Chris Kirk
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Feb 9, 2017
Free school to open above Lidl store after 3 years ‘in portacabins’
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Feb 9, 2017
Government considers PISA tests for 5 year olds
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Feb 9, 2017
Ministers consider new ‘national selection test’ to replace 11-plus
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Feb 8, 2017
EBacc ‘increases arts subject entries’ but teacher numbers fall
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Feb 8, 2017
Greater Manchester is seventh UTC to announce closure
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Feb 7, 2017
RSC Vicky Beer resigns to head new academy trust
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Feb 6, 2017
Robots should replace school receptionists, claims think tank
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Feb 6, 2017
Schools call on MPs to fight ‘grossly unfair’ Progress 8
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Feb 6, 2017
Top DfE civil servant blames poor communication for an accounting blunder
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Feb 5, 2017
Department for Education indefinitely delays move to new offices
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More multi-academy trusts naming their own feeder primaries
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Feb 5, 2017
‘Great teaching is the opposite of what you learn in training’
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Feb 4, 2017
School tells staff to switch off ‘non-essential’ lights to save money
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Feb 4, 2017
Two-year visa migrant teachers ease recruitment crisis
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‘Superhead’ Jo Shuter has teaching ban overturned
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Feb 3, 2017
Revealed: The 23 trusts that broke rules over £4m related-party transactions
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Feb 3, 2017
Roll pupil premium into national funding formula, say experts
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Feb 3, 2017
Auditors flag increase in financially ‘unviable’ academy trusts
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Feb 3, 2017
Meet the £200k-per-year academy chiefs who look after just a handful of schools
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Feb 3, 2017
Termly safeguarding audits would help heads ‘sleep at night’
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Feb 2, 2017
Sponsored academies lose more pupils after takeovers
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Feb 2, 2017
Governors in West Sussex plan strike over school funding
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Feb 2, 2017
Harris Federation boss’s salary reaches £420,000 after latest pay rise
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Feb 2, 2017
Government abandons year 3 phonics check after trial prompts workload concerns
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Feb 2, 2017
Ofsted publishes ‘unapproved’ report placing Durand in special measures
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Feb 2, 2017
Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss
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Jan 31, 2017
Nick Gibb ‘comfortable’ with schools’ approach to cost cutting
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Jan 31, 2017
Multi-academy trusts swap data systems for Progress 8
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Jan 31, 2017
Over a third of parents asked for school donations, survey finds
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Jan 31, 2017
Over a third of parents asked for school donations, survey finds
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Jan 31, 2017
John Blake appointed education chief at Policy Exchange
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Jan 30, 2017
Poor careers advice due to spending decisions by school leaders, skills minister claims
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Jan 30, 2017
Accounts Watch: Academy trust chief gets £85,000 severance pay-out
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Jan 30, 2017
EFA paid £16m for £5m Hackney free school site
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Jan 30, 2017
Ministers urged to drop DBS check rules ‘killing off’ school exchanges
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Jan 29, 2017
Educational psychologists stripped from schools
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Jan 28, 2017
Basildon Academies trust issued fourth government warning
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Jan 27, 2017
Multi-academy trusts spend less on ‘back office’ but don’t pay teachers more … and 6 other EPI findings
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Jan 27, 2017
Treasury claws back £384m academy conversion funding
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Jan 27, 2017
Black girls take the lead in STEM subjects
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Jan 27, 2017
Brooke Weston academy trust invests £1m in stocks
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Jan 27, 2017
No council cash for new free schools in Manchester
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Jan 27, 2017
RSC performance measure quietly dropped
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Jan 27, 2017
Teaching apprenticeships: the new school direct?
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Jan 27, 2017
Regional schools commissioner league tables 2014-15
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Jan 27, 2017
NASUWT claim most teachers miss out on 1% pay rise
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Jan 27, 2017
Ofsted ‘fatally neglecting’ PSHE and sex education, say humanists
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Jan 27, 2017
Brett Wigdortz to step down as Teach First chief executive
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Jan 27, 2017
Ministers review incentives and consider ‘toughening Ofsted’ over school career advice
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Jan 25, 2017
Russell Hobby to step down as NAHT general secretary
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Jan 25, 2017
Teaching apprenticeship will be ready ‘within two years’
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Jan 23, 2017
‘I’ve cut teaching to the bare bones’ – heads tell MPs of agonising cuts
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Jan 23, 2017
More post-16 free schools planned to aid maths A-level take-up
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Jan 23, 2017
Heads claim school budgets will be ‘untenable’ in two years’ time
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Jan 23, 2017
Passivhaus schools claim to reduce energy costs by 80 per cent
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Jan 22, 2017
School with £1.3m debt now faces closure over inadequate Ofsted
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Jan 21, 2017
Dangerous drivers prompt body cameras for school-duty staff
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Jan 21, 2017
Examiner awards scheme launched to lure teachers amid growing demand
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Jan 20, 2017
Examiner awards scheme launched to lure teachers amid growing demand
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Jan 20, 2017
It’s official: Schools to employ apprentices, but BBC and Parliament let off
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Jan 20, 2017
It’s official: Schools to employ apprentices, but BBC and Parliament let off
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Jan 20, 2017
Revealed: ‘Paused’ academy trusts are ducking their ban
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Jan 20, 2017
Academy chain leader ‘won’t rule out’ expansion of grammar streams
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Jan 20, 2017
Grammars profit from sales of ‘mock’ 11-plus exams
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Jan 20, 2017
MAT league tables 2016: Over half of trusts “significantly below average”, and 5 other findings
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Jan 19, 2017
Amanda Spielman appoints former Nicky Morgan special adviser to Ofsted
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Jan 19, 2017
Investigation: How have poorer pupils performed in GCSEs at flagship schools?
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Jan 19, 2017
Progress 8 results 2016: Gibb hails schools for narrowing attainment gap
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Jan 19, 2017
1 in 5 sixth form colleges starts academy conversion process
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Jan 18, 2017
Greening’s £3.5m research hub fund open to ‘opportunity area’ schools
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Jan 18, 2017
Consider scrapping KS2 teacher-marked writing tests, says Ofsted director
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Jan 18, 2017
Schools put in special measures at ‘top-performing’ WCAT
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Jan 18, 2017
Schools in six more areas to get ‘opportunity’ funding
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Jan 18, 2017
College of Teaching officially opens its doors for members
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Jan 18, 2017
Ormiston chief Toby Salt takes top role at exam board AQA
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Jan 17, 2017
Check job applicants’ school background, MPs tell employers
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Jan 17, 2017
Language exchange trips ‘killed’ off by safeguarding worries and costs
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Jan 16, 2017
Ministers confirm sugar tax will be ringfenced for school sports
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Jan 16, 2017
Sixth form funding ‘tight’, admits Nick Gibb
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Jan 16, 2017
Review launched after ‘more than half’ of primary school pupils with language disorders not identified
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Jan 16, 2017
School fines pupils for lateness
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Jan 15, 2017
Human rights charity warns headteachers over pupil nationality data collection
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Jan 15, 2017
Regional schools commissioner Jennifer Bexon-Smith to retire
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Jan 14, 2017
Greening warned tinkering could cause funding formula to “come crashing down”
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Jan 14, 2017
Flooded schools need millions to relocate
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Jan 14, 2017
Flexible hours demand scuppers Return to Teaching pilot
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Jan 14, 2017
East of England has highest proportion of coasting primary schools
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Jan 12, 2017
Baverstock Academy closure on again after second government U-turn
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Jan 11, 2017
Councils given £4.2m funding boost to tackle ‘remaining challenges’ in SEND reforms
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Jan 11, 2017
Government ‘looking at’ demand for mental health counsellor in every school
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Jan 10, 2017
PM pledges free mental health training for secondary school teachers
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Jan 9, 2017
DfE in danger of missing FOI request floor standard
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Jan 9, 2017
EEF to test impact of school theatre trips under £2.5m trial
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Jan 9, 2017
Greening: New grammar schools are ‘shared society’ example
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Jan 8, 2017
DfE recruits team of behavioural scientists
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Jan 8, 2017
Religious studies allocation scuppers plans for Jewish free school
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Jan 8, 2017
Travel costs to send students from closing UTC to Silverstone hit £100k
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Jan 7, 2017
Autism diagnosis can cause other special needs to be ‘neglected’
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Jan 7, 2017
Catholic Church will take government to court over school admissions letters from priests
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Jan 6, 2017
Government writes off £800,000 of free school funding
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Jan 6, 2017
Wakefield trust walkout leaves special measures school in six-year limbo
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Jan 6, 2017
Ofsted ignores more than 100 schools for a decade
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Jan 6, 2017
Most council-maintained schools shouldn’t pay apprenticeship levy, ministers claim
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Jan 6, 2017
School places left out of plans for garden villages
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Jan 5, 2017
Identifying Trojan Horse witnesses would put off future whistleblowers, warns union
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Jan 5, 2017
School improvement ‘failing’ at University of Chester Academies Trust, says Ofsted
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Jan 5, 2017
English teachers finally get research journal access similar to Scots
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Jan 5, 2017
Schools should teach all pupils ‘digital citizenship’, says children’s commissioner
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Jan 5, 2017
Christian schools claim Ofsted used them as ‘soft target’ after ‘inadequate’ judgments
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Jan 4, 2017
Schools warned over cold-calling ‘ransomware’ scam
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Jan 3, 2017
New Year’s Honours 2017: Medals go to 5 headteacher board members
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Dec 31, 2016
Pilot to return teachers into classrooms failed to fill chemistry and physics spaces
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Dec 30, 2016
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Dec 24, 2016
Ofsted give mixed verdict on independent school inspectorates
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Dec 23, 2016
10 key findings from the DfE’s accounts: Pay-offs, write-offs and failed UTCs
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Dec 21, 2016
Free school wants ‘rogue’ Ofsted grade quashed after 10-week ‘turnaround’
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Dec 21, 2016
DfE told its accounts lack ‘truth and fairness’ for second year running
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Dec 20, 2016
Government launches pro-grammar schools ‘campaign’ just days after official consultation closes
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Dec 20, 2016
How politics changed education in 2016
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Dec 20, 2016
Government’s computing revolution is excluding girls and poorer pupils, report finds
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Dec 19, 2016
Councils run crisis communications classes for schools as trusts up their PR focus
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Dec 19, 2016
Councils must estimate free school pupil numbers under funding change
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Dec 18, 2016
Lodgers move into disused Black Country UTC
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Dec 18, 2016
Errors in exam papers tripled this year, Ofqual report reveals
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Dec 18, 2016
Academy trusts told to avoid isolated academies
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Dec 17, 2016
Roger Taylor appointed as new chair of exams regulator Ofqual
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Dec 16, 2016
Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust has ‘let down pupils’
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Dec 16, 2016
Christmas appeal: literacy charity Hackney Pirates needs help to get shipshape again
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Dec 16, 2016
Schools struggle as autism diagnoses rise 25 per cent
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Dec 16, 2016
Half of new special free schools specialise in autism
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Dec 16, 2016
Councils face £600m blackhole in special needs funding
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Dec 16, 2016
DfE had agreement to share pupil nationality data with Home Office
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Dec 15, 2016
Ofsted to scrutinise governors’ commitment after report found many lack expertise to challenge heads
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Dec 15, 2016
Exam re-mark requests plummet after Ofqual reforms
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Dec 15, 2016
Primary school key stage 2 performance tables: 8 key progress findings
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Dec 15, 2016
2016 key stage 2 SATs: Fewer primary schools below floor standards
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Dec 15, 2016
First sixth form college and academy trust merger planned
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Dec 15, 2016
Plymouth CAST academy trust issued warning notice after leadership failings
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Dec 14, 2016
Explainer: How schools will be funded under the new national formula
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Dec 14, 2016
National funding formula: the winners and losers by school type
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Dec 14, 2016
Primary test reforms are ‘some of the worst ever seen’, MPs told by teachers
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Dec 14, 2016
National funding formula: the winners and losers by local authority area
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Dec 14, 2016
National funding formula: 10,700 schools set for extra cash, but more than 9,000 to lose out
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Dec 14, 2016
NAO school finances report: Headteachers face £3 Billion in cuts, and 10 other key findings
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Dec 14, 2016
DfE must ‘get its act together’ on school finances after spending watchdog condemns lack of leadership
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Dec 14, 2016
Fewer schools punished for exam malpractice, but penalties for staff soar
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Dec 13, 2016
Consultation responses reveal widespread resistance to government selection plans
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Dec 12, 2016
Government to pilot ‘secure schools’ after Taylor review condemns youth prisons
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Dec 12, 2016
Select committees launch joint inquiry into schools’ mental health provision
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Dec 12, 2016
SSAT 2016: Teaching to the test is stopping PISA progress, says Debra Kidd
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Dec 12, 2016
SSAT 2016: Numeracy and literacy focus narrowed the curriculum, says Sean Harford
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Dec 12, 2016
Just six areas meet government’s grammar schools criteria (but they aren’t in deprived places)
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Dec 12, 2016
SSAT 2015: We are in a new education age obsessed with identity, says Andy Hargreaves
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Dec 11, 2016
Child refugees: One school’s international solution for new arrivals
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Dec 11, 2016
Russell Group sticks by ‘preferred subjects’ list – but still has no evidence
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Dec 11, 2016
OGAT runs course showing academies how to ‘restructure’ staff
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Dec 10, 2016
Schools prepare for arrival of ‘hundreds’ of child refugees
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Dec 10, 2016
Private schools want £55m funding to offer 10,000 places for low-income pupils
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Dec 9, 2016
Investigation: Who should we believe on data?
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Dec 9, 2016
Did Theresa May mislead parliament on grammars?
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Dec 9, 2016
‘Just about managing’ pupils significantly under-represented in grammar schools, claims Sutton Trust
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Dec 9, 2016
Newham schools consider suing council over £500k PFI costs
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Dec 8, 2016
DfE hires grammar school critic as head of strategy and social mobility
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Dec 8, 2016
Daventry becomes sixth UTC to announce closure after recruitment problems
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Dec 8, 2016
Bright Tribe walks away from struggling schools in north
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Dec 8, 2016
Teacher pay: 1 per cent rise will cost schools £250m, warns government
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Dec 7, 2016
Minister to ‘accelerate’ proposals for changes to sex education
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Dec 6, 2016
PISA 2015: No improvement for a decade … and 10 other oddities
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Dec 6, 2016
PISA 2015: Achievement gap between top and bottom pupils equivalent to 8 years’ schooling
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Dec 6, 2016
RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands
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Dec 6, 2016
RSC Guide: Janet Renou, the North of England
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Dec 6, 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
Promote British values and register home-schooled pupils, Casey review recommends
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Dec 5, 2016
Ofsted sticks school in special measures, criticising ‘messy’ talks over academy status
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Dec 4, 2016
Schools struggle with rise in special provision requests
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Dec 3, 2016
Teachers ‘need more incentives’ to become examiners
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Dec 3, 2016
Isles of Scilly’s only secondary school placed in special measures – what now?
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Dec 3, 2016
GCSE English and maths requirement blamed for ‘cliff-edge drop’ in early years recruitment
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Dec 3, 2016
Government spent £205k on doomed National Teaching Service
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Dec 2, 2016
Carter: £140m funding pot shows shift from ‘mass conversion to mass improvement’
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Dec 2, 2016
20% of black pupils attend Catholic schools – does that mean there’s diversity?
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Dec 2, 2016
Empty free schools owe government £11m
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Dec 2, 2016
RSC boards won’t guarantee SEND and post-16 inclusion, says DfE
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Dec 2, 2016
The tick-box route to QTS: four hours’ assessment and no training
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Dec 2, 2016
More faith schools ‘unlikely’ to boost social mobility
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Dec 2, 2016
National Teaching Service cancelled after just 24 accept places
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Dec 1, 2016
Perry Beeches: second investigation reveals trust breached rules over Labour donation
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Dec 1, 2016
SSAT 2016, day 1: Schools told cash reserves will face closer scrutiny as cuts bite
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Dec 1, 2016
GCSE resits soar as students rush to last-chance retakes
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Dec 1, 2016
Wilshaw: I would have refused pupil immigration checks as head
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Dec 1, 2016
Ofsted annual report: School ratings rise, but progress stalls for SEN pupils
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Dec 1, 2016
Nationality data was ‘compromise’ on Theresa May’s school immigration check plan
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Dec 1, 2016
Government continues judging RSCs on academy conversion rate – despite conflict of interest concerns
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Nov 29, 2016
Year 5 girls fall behind boys in maths for first time since 2007, TIMSS data shows
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Nov 29, 2016
TIMSS 2015: No improvement since 2012 and younger girls falling behind
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Nov 29, 2016
RSC Guide: Dominic Herrington, south-east and south London
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Nov 29, 2016
RSC Guide: Martin Post, north-west London and south central England
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Nov 29, 2016
Government refuses MP call to make strategy on sexual harassment a statutory requirement
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Nov 29, 2016
Former UKIP education spokesperson Paul Nuttall becomes party leader
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Nov 28, 2016
Inside the hidden world of all-party parliamentary groups on education – Part 2
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Nov 28, 2016
Career education under microscope as part of £1m evidence drive
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Nov 28, 2016
Pupil data can inform starting points, but should never be used to cap expectations of learners
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Nov 27, 2016
Gibb urged to make arts EBacc commitment after £300m music hub pledge
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Nov 27, 2016
Schools can get £5k for getting ‘returner teachers’ back into classrooms
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Nov 27, 2016
Behavioural insights team tells schools how to ‘nudge’ behaviour
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Nov 26, 2016
DfE insists it can spot bogus grammar survey responses
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Nov 26, 2016
Academy sponsored by ‘top-performing’ Bright Tribe ‘placed in special measures’
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Nov 25, 2016
Wilshaw warns against over-reliance on data as he lists proudest Ofsted achievements
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Nov 25, 2016
Ridings Federation of Academies issued with financial notice to improve over potential ‘£1 million deficit’
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Nov 25, 2016
Plymouth Cast trust criticised over leadership and safeguarding failings
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Nov 25, 2016
Try before you buy: the new way for multi-academy trusts to takeover schools
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Nov 25, 2016
GCSE resit changes cost schools £6 million
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Nov 25, 2016
“Unusual” management plan for Parkfield Free School
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Nov 25, 2016
New extremism advice drafted after Trump supporter Milo has school speech cancelled
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Nov 24, 2016
Drop in trainee teachers, and 4 other key findings from ITT data
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Nov 24, 2016
Ofsted to put more emphasis on preparation of pupils for employment
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Nov 24, 2016
Northern Powerhouse schools strategy: Halt standalone academies, and 11 other key findings
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Nov 23, 2016
Pilot ‘Teach North’ scheme to boost school performance, report demands
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Nov 23, 2016
Autumn statement: Grammars grants confirmed, but no schools funding boost
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Nov 23, 2016
Charge parents £500 to plug school funding gap, says leading head
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Nov 22, 2016
Louise Holmes, founder of EdCentral
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Nov 22, 2016
RSC Guide: Tim Coulson, East of England and north-east London
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Nov 22, 2016
RSC Guide: Rebecca Clark, South-west England
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Nov 22, 2016
Affluent schools more likely to improve Ofsted grade, and 3 other key findings from EPI Ofsted report
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Nov 22, 2016
Schools boost Ofsted grades despite deteriorating performance, report finds
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Nov 22, 2016
School leader development charities rebrand as Ambition School Leadership
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Nov 22, 2016
DfE ordered to publish landmark grammar school expansion application
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Nov 21, 2016
Teach First should shun London to boost social mobility
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Nov 20, 2016
Thanks? No thanks: Why only 1 teacher received a thank you letter from the education secretary
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Nov 18, 2016
Schools lack guidance on how to handle pupil exclusions
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Nov 18, 2016
High and low attainers do worst in fully selective areas, new data reveals
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Nov 18, 2016
School admissions watchdog rejects ‘Catholic certificate’
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Nov 18, 2016
Heads report ‘bleak picture’ and no improvement in teacher recruitment for third year
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Nov 18, 2016
Famed ‘turnaround’ Perry Beeches academy rated inadequate, Ofsted leak reveals
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Nov 17, 2016
Sir Michael Barber to leave Pearson in 2017
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Nov 17, 2016
Ofsted praises council with worst results for ‘resolute’ turnaround
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Nov 17, 2016
Academy trust finance warnings more than treble in a year
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Nov 16, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn lodges motion to stop pupil nationality data collection
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Nov 16, 2016
Social mobility commission: Force schools in worst local authorities into improvement programmes
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Nov 16, 2016
Government cancels rule forcing academics to show research two days before publication
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Nov 15, 2016
Inspect pupil well-being and appoint mental health lead in schools, commission demands
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Nov 15, 2016
RSC guide: Vicky Beer, Lancashire and West Yorkshire
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Nov 15, 2016
RSC guide: Jenny Bexon-Smith, East Midlands and the Humber
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Nov 15, 2016
Key national funding formula consultation may run over Christmas
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Nov 14, 2016
Half of English Literature exam papers not given ‘correct’ grade, Ofqual finds
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Nov 14, 2016
More business managers need to train for future senior roles
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Nov 14, 2016
EBacc leads to job insecurity for creative arts teachers, report warns
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Nov 14, 2016
Let’s have a PGCE Plus with a SEND pathway, delegates told
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Nov 13, 2016
Education honours committee wants three new members
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Nov 13, 2016
Independents ‘don’t want to switch’ to free schools
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Nov 12, 2016
Ofsted will give 5 days’ notice of SEND inspections
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Nov 12, 2016
New Aldridge Education trust ditches struggling academy
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Nov 12, 2016
Stats watchdog slams DfE for grammar schools tweet
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Nov 11, 2016
Councils cut support for SEND provision – while boosting reserves
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Nov 11, 2016
Ministers told to ‘come clean’ over national teaching service
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Nov 11, 2016
New group to boost status of ethnic minority teachers
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Nov 11, 2016
Non-teachers should be hired to plug school leader shortage, says report
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Nov 11, 2016
No-resit GCSEs prompt rise in ‘special consideration’ requests – but ill pupils lose out
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Nov 10, 2016
DfE to open up academy finances in transparency drive
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Nov 10, 2016
Bright Tribe investigation reveals chain breached rules – but will not face notice to improve
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Nov 9, 2016
The 8 most important findings from the government’s new-look academies report
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Nov 9, 2016
One in ten secondary schools set to be labelled as “coasting”
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Nov 9, 2016
Primary test leak report warns of future errors
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Nov 9, 2016
DfE doesn’t know which interventions are ‘value for money’, education secretary says
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Nov 8, 2016
Grammar schools could lose selective status for missing poor pupils target
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Nov 8, 2016
Ofsted ordered to amend report claiming gender segregation broke law
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Nov 8, 2016
Tutor-proof 11-plus test is ‘Holy Grail’, claims minister
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Nov 8, 2016
Campaign demands support for speaking skills after teachers describe training ‘barriers’
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Nov 8, 2016
Comprehensive heads reject grammar schools plan
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Nov 8, 2016
Unpaid DfE coaching scheme for women teachers criticised as ‘tick-box exercise’
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Nov 7, 2016
School ICT costs rise as pound plummets post-Brexit
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Nov 7, 2016
Justine Greening holds up findings of the Teachers Working Longer Review
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Nov 6, 2016
Feeder pre-school charges £275 ‘retainer fee’ for free nursery place
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Nov 5, 2016
The Giles Academy trust issued with financial notice over ‘serious breach’ of land-buying agreement
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Nov 4, 2016
Boss of country’s largest academy trust steps down
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Nov 4, 2016
Pupils who record own learning make four months’ progress in maths – and two other EEF trials
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Nov 4, 2016
Multi-academy trusts 6 times more likely to be named after men than women
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Nov 4, 2016
New free schools chief resets Cameron’s target
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Nov 4, 2016
Harris plans vocational courses-only school (with GCSE resits)
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Nov 4, 2016
Ofsted offers up extra cash to entice inspectors to lead school visits
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Nov 4, 2016
Ofsted quietly ditches good practice case studies
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Nov 4, 2016
Union website predicts budget cuts for every school in England
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Nov 4, 2016
Silent army of ‘lost girls’ struggle with reading, experts warn
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Nov 4, 2016
EEF trial finds breakfast clubs more effective than infant free school meals
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Nov 4, 2016
MPs hope power of prayer will scrap pupil database changes
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Nov 3, 2016
Nicky Morgan: I had to ‘fend off ideas’ from Downing Street
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Nov 3, 2016
Government told to ‘come clean’ on EBacc consultation findings after six-month delay
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Nov 3, 2016
Executive headteacher of 8 local authority primaries paid more than £330,000-a-year
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Nov 3, 2016
Rise in appeals against ‘tougher’ Key Stage 2 SATs tests
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Nov 3, 2016
Wilshaw writes letter condemning heads for failing to stop pupil fight
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Nov 3, 2016
Comprehensives can have ‘grammar school ethos’, claims Wilshaw
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Nick Gibb summoned to grammar schools ‘evidence check’ hearing
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DfE starts search for new Ofsted chair
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Former union boss and Reach 4 chair among new advisers for schools commissioner
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Nationality data won’t be included in National Pupil Database, says minister
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Justine Greening shelves Education for All bill
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Justine Greening shelves Education for All bill
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Union ballots on Sats boycott as MPs call for testing to be suspended
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Michael Gove backs grammar plan – despite previous resistance to selective school expansion
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DfE ordered to publish suppressed infant free school meals report
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Justine Greening: Strong case to keep teacher pay rises capped at 1 per cent
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A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings
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A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings
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A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings
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Academy trusts wanting cash to grow ‘rejected’ by DfE
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Boys trail girls in literacy because they skim read books, report finds
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Academy trusts should ‘exchange’ back office services
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Oct 24, 2016
Education can make you (and me) sick, says David Blunkett
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Pearson Teaching Awards reveal who has come top of the class in 2016
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Two more UTCs struggling: one planning to become a secondary, the other facing takeover
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25 free schools delayed each year
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Rochford Review: Experts praise ‘brave’ proposals for new SEN assessment
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Oct 21, 2016
Charity Commission finally publishes Durand investigation
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Oct 21, 2016
The 7 schools doing really well on Progress 8
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DfE refuses to release pupil nationality data agreement
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Academy sponsors owe £13m in pledged funding
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Oct 21, 2016
Greening wants trainee teachers to experience more school placements
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EEF hands out £1m for second pilot of controversial philosophy programme
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David Carter: The weakest academies will be supported not ‘shamed’
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PE and RE teachers are least effective superheads, new study reveals
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Government u-turns on year 7 resit manifesto pledge
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Justine Greening announces primary assessment changes
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Sir David Carter: Claim that trusts failed because they grew too quickly is a “myth”
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Nottingham schools cap teacher workload at ‘2 hours per night’
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Make it easier to create new exam boards, says new report
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Academy pension review will look at funding gap
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Oct 17, 2016
Virtual lessons no ‘panacea’, says trust’s technology director
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Teacher workload report recommends cutting TAs and increasing teachers
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Don’t think before you speak, all-male panel told at WomenEd
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Teachers ‘not prepared’ for pupils’ poor mental health
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Sixth-form colleges move to start academy trusts
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Private schools spend three times more on each pupil
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Academics petition education secretary over 48-hour research publication rule
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Watch for hidden costs when rebrokering, trust leaders warn
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Chief of trust under investigation attacks EFA
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Fast-track ECDL IT qualification pass rate soars by 350%
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Shadow education team has the right experience, says Labour
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Greening to reveal primary test changes ‘in coming weeks’
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Nearly 300 schools fall below new Progress 8 floor standard
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Expanding selection could increase racial tensions, warn peers
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Progress 8 results 2016: Key findings from the first national data release
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EBacc results 2016: Languages and art entries fall, while science soars
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The Department for Education has removed a school data webpage – but why?
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Regional Schools Commissioners grilled by MPs: 5 things we learned
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Durand: We will fight any slur on Sir Greg Martin’s good name
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Government needs ‘more information’ before summer-born decision
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Durand Academy Trust funding to be terminated
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Wilshaw reveals recipe for success after inspecting 7 top academy trusts
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Labour reshuffle: Rayner stays, Mike Kane becomes shadow schools minister
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Oct 10, 2016
Five schools unveiled as regional research hubs
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Government cuts funding for School Direct shortage subjects
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New teacher training recruitment caps explained
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Government cuts funding for School Direct shortage subjects
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Phonics results rise again but writing falls behind at KS1
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Corbyn: Labour will give schools £160m ‘arts pupil premium’
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UTC architect Lord Baker slams government over ‘narrow’ EBacc
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Labour to launch childcare taskforce to ‘transform’ early years
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Chair of Education Funding Agency doubts all-academy and grammar plans
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Teacher severance pay cap will cost schools, warns union
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Angela Rayner: Full text of Labour Conference 2016 speech
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Labour plans grammar schools debate after issue tops poll of members
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Peter Lauener bags third chief executive job – despite concerns over EFA workload
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Corbyn launches national campaign against grammar schools
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Full academisation could cost taxpayer £320 million, warn councils
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Conservative minister with grammar schools ‘concerns’ quits government
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Academy trust ordered to close private company sponsor after EFA investigation
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EPI grammar schools report: the 7 key findings
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New grammar schools will not increase social mobility, report finds
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DfE admits to alternative provision failures
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Former Lilac Sky CEO disputes revised accounts
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Sep 23, 2016
Financial investigation into Bright Tribe trust remains ‘hidden’ by education secretary
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Inquiry follows primary assessment ‘chaos’
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Prep school exaggerated 11-plus results
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Pupils who were not white British told to send in birthplace data
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Academic calls for return of the classics in all schools
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University free school plan ‘insulting’ to teachers, says Oxford boss
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Vote Leave campaigner and Tory donor behind Parents and Teachers for Excellence campaign
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Pro-academy campaign group launched by ‘superhead’ Rachel De Souza – but funders remain anonymous
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Make schools commissioners independent, demands think-tank
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Rebrokered academies given 3-year Ofsted grace period
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Sep 19, 2016
Academy trust CEOs reject ‘centres of excellence’ proposal
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Progress 8 scores in grammars ‘overstated’
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UTCs soak up lower ability pupils, research suggests
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Durand Academy Trust refuses to cut ties with controversial former executive head
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Ofsted data shows grammars do not ‘guarantee quality’
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Faith schools welcome 100% faith-based admissions
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Harris boss warns new Ofsted chief inspector against scrapping ‘outstanding’ grade
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77 new free schools: The complete list
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Greening unveils 77 new free schools
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Harris boss warns new Ofsted chief inspector against scrapping ‘outstanding’ grade
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Unlikely allies gather in opposition to grammar schools
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Sep 15, 2016
Government ‘taking forward’ academies white paper, Greening confirms
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Pupil database changes made ‘without debate’
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Unlikely allies gather in opposition to grammar schools
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Government ‘taking forward’ academies white paper, Greening confirms
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Pupil database changes made ‘without debate’
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Justine Greening’s first education select committee: 4 things we learned
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Cross-party MPs: Give schools legal duty to tackle sexual harassment
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Backlash over ‘schools that work for everyone’ as grammar plan title
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May’s grammar challenge revealed as Conservative MPs voice fears
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Grammar schools green paper: The 12 policy recommendations
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Grammar schools green paper reveals government selective education expansion plan
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