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Exams 2021: Leaders fear pressure from parents with ‘pointy elbows and lawyer friends’

School leaders fear the switch to teacher assessment instead of exams this year will lead to pressure to adjust…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spielman says deprived schools’ lower grades offset by leadership praise

Amanda Spielman has claimed Ofsted recognises the ‘relative strength’ of schools in poorer areas by rating their leadership more…

James Carr
James Carr
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DfE proposes school business rates change to cut ‘substantial bureaucracy’ 

The government is proposing to change the way “complex” school business rates are collected to cut out “substantial bureaucracy”….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupils ‘expected to know’ up to 1,700 words under reforms to MFL GCSEs

Pupils will be “expected to know” up to 1,700 different words under proposed reforms to GCSE modern foreign language…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE doubles down on policy that in-school Covid test positives don’t need confirmatory PCR

The government has doubled down on its policy that positive Covid cases identified by tests in school don’t need…

James Carr
James Carr
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Exams 2021: 9 things we learned from Gibb and Ofqual at education committee

Schools minister Nick Gibb and officials from exams regulator Ofqual were quizzed this morning over plans to replace formal…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


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Laptops: DfE 50k devices short of 1.3m pledge as schools return

The government was still around 50,000 devices short of its pledge to provide 1.3 million laptops and tablets to…

James Carr
James Carr
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Attendance: Almost 1 in 5 pupils were in school the week before reopenings

Almost one in five pupils were in school last week, just days before wider reopenings, new attendance data shows….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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2022 exams may need similar ‘adaptations’ as those proposed for 2021, warns Ofqual chief

The government is considering making “adaptations” to exams in 2022 similar to those proposed for this summer’s assessments before…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government medic warns of school disruption as Covid testing regime beds in

Schools may see a “larger number” of children forced to self-isolate during the first weeks of reopening while new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Majority of schools report 90 per cent of pupils taking on-site Covid tests

Nine out of 10 pupils are taking part in on-site Covid testing at the majority of schools and colleges…

James Carr
James Carr
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DfE ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ after admitting £705m for catch-up isn’t all new money

The government stands accused of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” after finally admitting that a £705 million Covid catch-up…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker