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17 April 2026

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Academy bosses’ salaries are on the way up, but women are missing out at the top

2h | Academies
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‘SEND reforms are stronger because we engaged with communities’

2h | Inclusion
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We need more money if you want us to change school food, say caterers

2h | School food

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Teachers’ pensions delays ‘unacceptable’, says minister

2h | Pay and conditions
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Trust that ploughed reserves into school improvement slips £3.4m into deficit

2h | Academies
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Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss

2h | Assessment

Don’t ‘prolong staggered starts’ for reception pupils, schools told

2h | Early years

Registers of children not in education ‘burdensome’ for not much value, pilot suggests

2h | Attendance
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Cathie Paine

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SEND reforms make the home-school relationship more important than ever

Nicola Whitcombe

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Emma Smith

It’s time for a reality check over health services in schools

Emma Smith

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Why we’re replacing local governing bodies with regional school boards

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Earning the right to deprivation funding

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Guy Shears, CEO, Central Region Schools Trust

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Lessons from the frontline of Russia’s propaganda war

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Will reforms fix the SEND funding crisis?

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Sharing not siloed: The special schools bringing inclusion into the mainstream

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Does Ofsted’s approach to achievement data add up?
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The long, lonely wait for SEND help
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Dr Jenny Blunden, CEO, Truro and Penwith Academy Trust
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Baroness Barran, shadow education minister
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Why we’re replacing local governing bodies with regional school boards

Adrian Ball

2h | The Boardroom Leader

Using action research can help ease the transition from school

Amal Ali

11 Mar 2026 | The Research Leader

DfE should support struggling private schools to become academies

Tom Richmond

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Investigation

Academy bosses’ salaries are on the way up, but women are missing out at the top

2h | Academies
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Trust that ploughed reserves into school improvement slips £3.4m into deficit

2h | Academies
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Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss

2h | Assessment
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Child poverty strategy ignores schools as ‘central partner’, says Teach First

2h | Politics
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We need more money if you want us to change school food, say caterers
2h | School food
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SEND reforms make the home-school relationship more important than ever
2h | Opinion
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White paper reforms must enrich all pupils
2h | Opinion
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It’s time for a reality check over health services in schools
2h | Opinion: SEND