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Over 40% of ‘underperforming’ schools improve when Progress 8 includes pupil background

More than 40 per cent of “underperforming” secondary schools would no longer fall into the category if progress measures...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE: School improvement has ‘arrested or reversed’ in some sponsored academies

Converting schools to sponsored academies does not consistently cause pupil performance to get better – with school improvement actually...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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EBacc target ‘out of our hands’, say heads

Ofsted’s decision to check schools are entering enough pupils for the EBacc suggests the inspectorate has a preferred “academic”...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools to split £2.5m funding for foreign exchange trips

Schools can apply for a slice of £2.5 million in government funding to take disadvantaged pupils on trips abroad,...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted framework: Heads warn audit culture will ‘switch’ to exercise books

Headteachers have dismissed Ofsted’s claims that its new inspection framework will reduce workload, warning that a proposed shift from...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Exclusions: Ofsted will look more closely at ‘repeat’ patterns of suspension

Ofsted will look more closely at whether schools are “repeatedly” suspending or isolating the same pupils, under its new...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools shut out from DfE music curriculum panel

The government has come under fire for choosing just three serving school leaders for its 14-strong panel that will...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New ‘witness charter’ to protect teachers in misconduct hearings

The Teaching Regulation Agency has drawn up a “witness charter” to protect teachers who give evidence in misconduct hearings....

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Stats watchdog rebukes School Cuts website for ‘misleading’ funding figures

The stats watchdog has rebuked the School Cuts website – run by a coalition of unions – for its...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg