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Proportion of state-funded schools over capacity falls
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Mar 28, 2019
Use ballots to allocate places at Scotland's top state schools, says major report
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Mar 26, 2019
Balancing out Britain’s state schools
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Mar 26, 2019
Most of Scotland's best state schools 'in the 20 per cent wealthiest areas'
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Mar 26, 2019
Poorer pupils less likely to get place at top Scots state schools
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Mar 26, 2019
Edinburgh's top performing state secondary school revealed
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Mar 20, 2019
The top 50 state schools in Scotland 2019
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Mar 20, 2019
Future of last girls-only state school hangs in the balance
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Mar 18, 2019
Independent education only marginally boosts income, study suggests
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Mar 11, 2019
Long-term outcomes: How do independent school pupils’ outcomes differ from those of state school pupils?
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Mar 11, 2019
Music lessons 'being stripped' out of schools in England
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Mar 8, 2019
Consultation agreed on letting boys into Scotland's last state-run girls' school
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Mar 7, 2019
Ex-education secretary Michael Gove wants to abolish private schools by making state ones better
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Mar 1, 2019
Will boys be let into Scotland's last remaining single-sex state school?
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Mar 1, 2019
Head teacher shortens school week to boost happiness
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Feb 27, 2019
London state school to introduce four-and-a-half day week to make teachers happier
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Feb 26, 2019
State school pupils can race ahead | Letters
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Feb 8, 2019
Leading UK universities going backwards on state school access
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Feb 8, 2019
Poor pupils still denied chance to get a degree
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Feb 8, 2019
Grenfell's Kensington Aldridge Academy school is honoured for 'outstanding achievement' at Evening Standard School Awards
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Feb 7, 2019
Number of state school pupils attending university drops despite efforts to widen access
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Feb 7, 2019
Russell Group university outreach programmes flounder as half admit fewer state school students than previous year
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Feb 7, 2019
Rising trend of state school pupils going to university reverses
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Feb 7, 2019
47 state school students offered places at top US unis
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Feb 1, 2019
More than one in 10 secondary schools under-performing
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Jan 25, 2019
State education is a Cinderella service and both the Tories and Labour are to blame | Fiona Millar
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Jan 22, 2019
The state school with a ‘secret formula’ for getting 41 pupils into Oxbridge
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Jan 17, 2019
State school in one of London's poorest boroughs secures 41 offers to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities
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Jan 17, 2019
London state school secures 41 Oxbridge offers
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Jan 17, 2019
State school in one of London's poorest areas sees 41 pupils offered places at Oxford and Cambridge
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Jan 16, 2019
Teacher pensions to cost state schools £830m extra a year
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Jan 15, 2019
Is difference between private and state schools £3,200 per pupil?
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Jan 8, 2019
Exam appeals ‘tilted in favour of private schools’
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Dec 19, 2018
Why are high-flying state school pupils less likely to apply to Oxford or Cambridge than their private school peers?
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Dec 18, 2018
State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information
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Dec 13, 2018
You must partner state sector to survive,' private schools told
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Nov 30, 2018
State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2018
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Nov 29, 2018
State-funded schools statistics
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Nov 29, 2018
Top state schools close gap on private rivals
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Nov 25, 2018
State schools raise their GCSE game
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Nov 25, 2018
Scotland’s top performing state secondary schools
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Nov 25, 2018
More than 1,000 state schools have no applicants to elite schemes
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Nov 23, 2018
Top 20 English state primary schools revealed
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Nov 23, 2018
Over half of independent schools already share their facilities, now they have to share their staff too?
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Nov 21, 2018
Private schools are now ‘often more diverse than top state schools', top headteachers claim
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Nov 20, 2018
UK's private/state school wealth gap may be 'biggest in the world'
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Nov 15, 2018
Schools 'incentivised' to permanently exclude children, DfE finds
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Oct 17, 2018
A-level results by school type
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Oct 16, 2018
An analysis of recruitment, retention and training within the state-sector teacher workforce
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Oct 10, 2018
Claims on school funding face investigation
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Oct 4, 2018
Private school fees in minister's funding claims
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Oct 3, 2018
Working together, state and private schools can save education
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Sep 30, 2018
Research highlights need to train teachers in ICT
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Sep 25, 2018
State school students underrepresented in top UK graduate schemes, report finds
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Sep 24, 2018
Top graduate jobs soar yet state-schooled graduates are vastly underrepresented
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Sep 24, 2018
Survey: state school teachers say much of their work is meaningless
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Sep 13, 2018
Parents pay huge premiums for homes near top schools
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Aug 29, 2018
Parents are paying a hefty £70k extra for a house near a top state school
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Aug 28, 2018
Is abolishing the private school system the answer to inequality? | Letters
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Aug 28, 2018
Melissa Benn: The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
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Aug 24, 2018
The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
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Aug 24, 2018
Headteachers blame funding cuts as schools expel 40 pupils each day
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Jul 19, 2018
Sharp rise in pupil exclusions from English state schools
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Jul 19, 2018
72 British state school students win places at top US universities in the Sutton Trust US Programme’s most successful year to date
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Jul 9, 2018
Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a state school success story. He may never have a successor
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Jul 3, 2018
‘A market-led school system has put finances before the needs of pupils’
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Jun 30, 2018
Number of teachers in state schools continues to decline
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Jun 28, 2018
Minister to urge grammars to take over the running of failing state schools in a new drive to boost standards
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Jun 13, 2018
State-educated judges replace the old school
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Jun 11, 2018
Toxic air filters bought by rich private schools as state schools turn to parents to stump up cash
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Jun 9, 2018
Most lawyers recommended to be judges went to state schools, data shows
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Jun 8, 2018
Academisation of state education has reduced freedom and autonomy for schools
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Jun 6, 2018
What’s the difference between grammar, private and state education and what is Theresa May’s free school expansion?
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Jun 5, 2018
What’s the difference between grammar, private and state education and what is Theresa May’s free school expansion?
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May 29, 2018
Parents raise cash for school air purifiers
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May 29, 2018
Daily roundup 23 May: Sugar reduction, grammar schools, and peer support
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May 23, 2018
Tories' £50million grammar schools handout 'is unlikely to bring benefits' says damning study
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May 23, 2018
Oxford’s Wadham College: Diversity drives standards up, not down
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May 23, 2018
More than 60% of students offered places at Oxford are from state schools for the first time in the university’s history
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May 22, 2018
Councils attack ministers over need to ‘raid state school funding to support special needs children’
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May 14, 2018
NASUWT comments on Government announcement following 'schools that work for everyone' consultation
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May 11, 2018
Government announcement following 'Schools that work for everyone' consultation
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May 11, 2018
Schools that work for everyone
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May 11, 2018
Streaming in primary and secondary schools ‘enshrines disadvantage’
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May 8, 2018
Oxbridge in race to enrol state pupils
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May 6, 2018
'Greening's comments about Eton show how misunderstood our independent schools are'
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May 4, 2018
‘Choice’ is code for inequality – and it has polluted our education system | Frances Ryan
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May 3, 2018
'Spoon-fed' state pupils are unable to cope at uni, claims ex-private school head
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May 2, 2018
Former boarding school pupils are dominating the top jobs
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May 1, 2018
Justine Greening: Employers should discriminate against Etonians
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May 1, 2018
This isn’t class war. It’s right to treat CVs from old Etonians differently | Gaby Hinsliff
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May 1, 2018
Employers should offer jobs to alumni of underperforming state schools over public school graduates, suggests Justine Greening
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May 1, 2018
Ex-Education Secretary Justine Greening says kids from sink schools should get jobs before Etonians
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May 1, 2018
Discriminate against job applicants from Eton, says former education secretary Justine Greening
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May 1, 2018
Employers urged to discriminate against job candidates from Eton in favour of state school applicants
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Apr 30, 2018
Make the royal baby a true people’s prince – send him to a comprehensive | Robert Verkaik
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Apr 27, 2018
Leader comment: The scandal of state school fees
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Apr 19, 2018
Claim ‘school isn’t free’ as pupils miss out on subjects due to costs
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Apr 19, 2018
Families being ‘routinely charged’ for basic classroom resources
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Apr 19, 2018
Call to reverse near-extinction of classics in Scottish schools
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Mar 29, 2018
Campaign to make state school pupils Latin lovers
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Mar 29, 2018
Grammar schools don’t add any value. So let’s ditch them | Ryan Shorthouse
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Mar 28, 2018
Was there ever a golden age for the grammar school?
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Mar 28, 2018
Inspectors give top marks to two Scottish state schools
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Mar 28, 2018
National scandal of grammar schools is revealed at last
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Mar 27, 2018
Grammar school students’ success ‘down to privilege,’ new reports finds
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Mar 27, 2018
Research: Grammar schools do not do better and should be scrapped
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Mar 27, 2018
The state secondary school where the only language taught is Mandarin
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Mar 22, 2018
Revealed: The top 50 state schools in Scotland for 2017
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Mar 16, 2018
Families defend girl school’s status
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Feb 21, 2018
Parents want girls' school to admit boys
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Feb 20, 2018
Scotland: Pressure for last single-sex state school to admit boys
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Feb 20, 2018
State schools often better managed than private schools
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Feb 5, 2018
Oxford students reject champion for state pupils
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Feb 4, 2018
HESA widening participation 16/17 – visualised
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Feb 2, 2018
Two in five universities have seen a drop in the proportion of students from state schools
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Feb 2, 2018
Number of state pupils attending university rises only marginally, figures show
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Feb 1, 2018
MillionPlus comment on the HESA widening participation performance indicators
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Feb 1, 2018
Attempts to widen UK university student participation have stalled
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Feb 1, 2018
Two out of five universities see drop in students from state schools
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Feb 1, 2018
Are private schools better managed than state schools?
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Feb 1, 2018
Cambridge and Oxford among worst universities for state school intake
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Feb 1, 2018
Education Secretary welcomes record proportion of university entrants from state schools
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Feb 1, 2018
State schools have the edge on efficiency
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Feb 1, 2018
Secondary school league tables: GCSE and A-level results tables for London state and independent schools
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Jan 27, 2018
Scotland: Exam remarking fees ‘put private pupils at advantage’
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Dec 6, 2017
Exam appeals system 'loaded in favour of pupils in private schools', says Labour
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Dec 5, 2017
A decade of success as Glasgow state schools ditch the poverty excuse
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Nov 27, 2017
Survey names Scotland’s top-performing state secondary school
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Nov 24, 2017
Ofsted should 'oblige' state schools to work with independent schools, urges head
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Nov 20, 2017
London primary becomes first state school to top rankings
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Nov 20, 2017
School in Theresa May’s constituency begs parents to help pay for pens and books
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Nov 16, 2017
‘Cash-strapped’ school asks parents to pay £1-a-day for pens and pencils
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Nov 16, 2017
The Oxford University college fighting elitism
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Nov 16, 2017
Schools in Theresa May's constituency are begging parents to pay for pens and glue to combat Tory cuts
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Nov 15, 2017
Celebrating Partnerships: Secretary of State shows support for cross-sector working
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Oct 13, 2017
'Schools should be exempt from £163m business rates bill'
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Oct 13, 2017
Academic gap between independent and state primaries narrows as fees rise
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Oct 9, 2017
Making waves: The urban schoolboy sailors
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Oct 9, 2017
As a state-school kid from a council estate, I experienced Oxbridge privilege differently
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Oct 6, 2017
The Army has opened a cadet unit in a Welsh state school - but a politician is angry
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Oct 4, 2017
Independent school pupils feel more prepared for university than state-educated peers, survey finds
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Oct 4, 2017
Private schools are vital to state education, says head
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Oct 2, 2017
Scotland: school business rate rise ‘would fuel house price surge’
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Oct 1, 2017
School funding changes will fail to tackle 'postcode lottery', heads warn
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Sep 28, 2017
Family's first student in Cambridge state school record
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Sep 27, 2017
Private and state schools slump on creative arts GCSEs – but why?
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Sep 21, 2017
Parents paying £121k more to get into ‘right’ school catchment
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Sep 20, 2017
Homes near Britain's top schools cost £415,000 on average - that's 11 times the typical UK wage
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Sep 20, 2017
Parents facing £129,000 premium for houses near best state schools, study finds
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Sep 20, 2017
Scotland: Top schools add 22% to house prices
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Sep 20, 2017
Scotland: Parents pay 'ridiculous' house prices to be near top schools
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Sep 20, 2017
Partnership is key to creating more good school places
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Sep 13, 2017
Celebrating Partnerships: Secretary of State shows support for cross-sector working
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Sep 13, 2017
DfE to monitor partnerships between state schools and independents
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Sep 13, 2017
When state schools lead, independents follow
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Sep 11, 2017
Councils pressured to place children in boarding schools instead of care
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Sep 7, 2017
Scotland: State pupils beat private peers to top medical grades
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Sep 6, 2017
State schools medical students outperform private school peers, study finds
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Sep 5, 2017
State school medical students lead the way at graduations
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Sep 5, 2017
Medical students from state schools do better than those who were privately educated
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Sep 5, 2017
Gap for top marks at A-level narrows between state schools and private schools
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Aug 26, 2017
Exam results gap between state schools and private schools is narrowing, figures show
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Aug 25, 2017
Universities can do more to stop the exodus from state school teaching
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Aug 16, 2017
Can we compare the A-Level performance of independent schools and state schools?
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Aug 14, 2017
A-levels: Private schools outperform similar state schools on pupil progress
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Let’s restrict the number of privately educated people in Britain’s elite | Ellie Mae O’Hagan
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Aug 7, 2017
The Real Schools Guide 2017: All state secondary schools in Wales rated and ranked
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Diversity drive at top universities is failing, as official figures reveal largest ever gap between state and private school students
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Daily roundup 26 July: Teacher qualifications, terror charge, and strike threat
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Jul 26, 2017
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Jul 24, 2017
School makes pupils wear signs if uniform doesn't meet standards
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Religious influence on state schools ‘could be curtailed’
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School segregation 'a kind of apartheid', Appeal Court hears
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Lucy Powell MP: Putting social mobility at the heart of government policy means grammar schools need to change
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Free school meal take-up lowest on record, and 4 more census findings
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Five teachers accused in Trojan horse affair free to return to classroom
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May 30, 2017
'Inspirational' state school teachers honoured for encouraging pupils to apply to Oxford
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May 22, 2017
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State schools mount charge of the poetry brigade
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Apr 29, 2017
Independent and state school partnerships reach new high - ISC Census 2017
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Apr 28, 2017
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Next wave of English free schools approved
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Yoga to become 'compulsory' in state-run schools in Uttar Pradesh
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Parents pay £52,000 more to live in areas with outstanding schools, new survey reveals
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Mar 28, 2017
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Mar 22, 2017
UK's most deprived state schools could face further cuts thanks to new government funding formula
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Mar 21, 2017
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Mar 20, 2017
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Mar 20, 2017
All state schools in England 'to face funding gap by 2020'
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Mar 16, 2017
The video game industry has a diversity problem – but it can be fixed
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Mar 15, 2017
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When’s a green paper a white paper? When it’s called schools that work for everyone
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Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: guide for schools
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Sex and relationships education to be compulsory for all schools in England
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New sex education curriculum will address 21st-century risks, government says
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Leading private girls' schools to share physics teachers with state sector
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Halle Orchestra plans to open Stoke-on-Trent school
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Army Cadet Force units ruled out at Scottish state schools
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I know all about Oxford’s class problem. It starts in schools | Alexandra Topping
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Nov 22, 2016
Charge parents £500 to plug school funding gap, says leading head
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