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More evidence needed to defend high salaries for CEOs of academy trusts

Defences of high salaries for the chief executives of academy trusts are not “evidence-based or robust enough” to withstand…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
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DfE keeps edtech demonstrator conflicts ‘action plan’ close to its chest

The government has an “action plan” to address potential conflicts of interest in its edtech demonstrator contract with United…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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PFI Endgame: DfE steps in to ensure school handovers go to plan

The Department for Education has launched a new unit to help transfer the first private finance initiative (PFI) schools…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
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Consent workshops and reviews: schools respond to sex abuse claims

A school named on the Everyone’s Invited website, set up to tackle rape culture, is to run compulsory “consent…

James Carr
James Carr
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Tell us why pupils’ exam grades will be withheld, heads tell Ofqual

Headteachers are demanding Ofqual come clean over why pupils might have exam grades “withheld” this summer. Ofqual’s chair and…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Poorest areas ‘most likely’ to have ‘significant weaknesses’ in SEND provision, says Ofsted

The poorest areas of England are “most likely” to have “significant weaknesses” in their special educational needs and disabilities…

James Carr
James Carr


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DfE claims Brexit has stalled grammar schools inclusion monitoring

The government has claimed that Brexit hampered its monitoring of efforts to make grammar schools more inclusive, after admitting…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Timpson two years on: Exclusions review chair wants action

The author of a landmark exclusions review has secured a crunch meeting with ministers to kick them into action…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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£125k salary fails to attract boss for ‘orphan’ academy trust

An academy trust for schools struggling to find sponsors is facing its own struggle to find a chief executive…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
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Special school ‘ineffective’ during pandemic, says Ofsted

A special school judged to be ineffective in providing education during the pandemic has been criticised by Ofsted for…

James Carr
James Carr
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New Covid study finds no reading loss, but confirms maths drop

Interim findings from another study into Covid lost learning have been published today. This one, funded by the Education…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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DfE extends school leaders wellbeing service to 160 more heads with £62k

A mental health and wellbeing support service for school leaders will be extended after an extra £62,000 in government…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker