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Revealed: How much your area will lose from pupil premium funding change

Schools in areas represented by cabinet ministers stand to lose more than £15 million after the government’s “ill-advised” decision…

James Carr
James Carr
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Study to track Covid’s long-term impact on pupils’ life chances

A new study will track Covid’s long-term impact on the life chances of thousands of year 11 pupils. The…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
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‘Frankly scandalous’: ASCL challenges Ofqual over student work checks

School leaders’ union ASCL is challenging Ofqual over  ‘scandalous’ plans announced yesterday for every school to provide samples of student…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Consent for school Covid testing trial questioned

The Department for Education has been alerted to potential ethics issues with its Covid testing trial in schools. More…

James Carr
James Carr
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The emerging ‘super league’ of academy trust CEO pay

The country’s best-paid academy chiefs are pulling even further ahead from the rest, with warnings of a “super league”…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
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DfE knew scale of result downgrades before 2020 exams fiasco

The Department for Education knew the full scale of downgraded results before the 2020 exams fiasco, a Schools Week…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


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Heads plan greater weighting on ‘exam-style papers’ for teacher assessment grades

Over half of leaders plan to give greater weighting to “exam-style papers” than other forms of assessment when issuing…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Accelerate’ £30k teacher starting salary pledge, says government’s recovery tsar

Ministers must “accelerate” their pledge to introduce a £30,000 teachers’ starting salary, the government’s own education recovery commissioner has…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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GCSE and A-levels: Ofqual reveals quality assurance evidence requirements

Schools will have to provide samples of student work within two days of being asked under the quality assurance…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Ofqual reveals more about how 2021 grade appeals will work

Pupils on grade borderlines are unlikely to be marked up at appeal even if the evidence showed they could…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Struggling pupils did ‘little, if any’ reading during lockdown, and 5 more Ofsted findings

Secondary school pupils who struggle to read were provided with “little, if any” reading work when learning from home…

James Carr
James Carr
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United Learning to take over edtech demonstrator programme

England’s largest academy trust United Learning has been awarded an £850,000 contract to run the government’s edtech demonstrator scheme…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker