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Sir Kevan Collins Q&A: Covid innovations can drive catch-up challenge

The new ‘education recovery’ commissioner believes Covid innovations such as virtual classes can be used to extend the school…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Gibb: ‘Challenge’ schools with low EBacc entries to address ‘unequal opportunities’

Schools with low EBacc entries must be “challenged” to address “unequal opportunities” in the system, Nick Gibb has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£500 bill for orange juice: Trust rapped for spend at ‘luxury’ spa hotel and ‘high fashion’ mag

An academy trust that opened from scratch with 10 schools has been rapped for spending thousands of pounds on…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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School attendance rises to 16% as key worker numbers leap

School attendance has climbed again to around 16 per cent, with 23 per cent of primary pupils now going…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘All ideas on the table’ says catch-up tsar as Johnson won’t rule out extending school term

All ideas to address lost learning should be “on the table”, the government’s new catch-up tsar has said, after…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Lost learning expert group scrapped by DfE before it’s even set up

A promise to set up an expert group to look at solutions for uneven lost learning across the country…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


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Covid-19 has hit exam years hardest, finds study of 62,000 pupils

Exam students have been hit hardest by Covid-19, a new report has found. A study by non-profit research organisation…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Will £6m Institute of Teaching’s legacy be shortlived?

The government’s new Institute of Teaching could be freed from its obligations to the government within just four years,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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How schools are coping with the Covid teacher recruitment boom

The pandemic-spurred boom in teacher recruitment has continued this year with the arrival of another wave of potential recruits….

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Covid-19 vaccine denied for special school staff – and then reinstated

A clinical commissioning group has apologised for the confusion it created after cancelling Covid-19 vaccine appointments for special school…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Grade appeals should be made to exam boards not schools, say unions

Appeals against grades issued this summer should be made directly to exam boards and not to schools and colleges,…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Alternative provision in crisis: deficits, closed sites and restructures

A leading alternative provision setting is being forced to close a specialist site due to a creaking high-needs funding…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg