The attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is the “big civil rights challenge” facing schools, a senior government official has said. Sir David Carter, the national...
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A government teacher-training tsar says schools that struggle to pay for teachers’ CPD should ask parents for £1 a week. Sir Andrew Carter, head of the South Farnham...
Extra funding for pay rises should be targeted at teachers who are early in their careers and working in shortage subjects, the Education Policy Institute has said. This...
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The government should refocus its £75 million teaching and leadership innovation fund to help boost pupils’ speaking and listening skills, MPs were told today. Anita Kerwin-Nye, a leading special...
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Northumberland Council has abandoned plans to close as many as 14 schools. Instead, the local authority’s cabinet will be asked to rubber-stamp proposals for a council-backed multi-academy trust...
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Leo Shapiro, the chief executive of exam board OCR, has stepped down after less than two years in post. Schools Week understands Shapiro left on Friday, but that...
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Whitehaven Academy, the troubled Cumbrian school at the centre of a row over the state of its buildings, is closed today after asbestos was disturbed on its site....
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A studio school on the Isle of Wight is set to close next August after struggling to recruit enough pupils. Inspire Academy Trust announced today that ministers have...
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Ofsted’s case studies have not always had their intended consequences. As Sean Harford said at the recent ‘Radical ideas to transform Ofsted’ conference at the UCL Institute for...
