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Five key findings from Ofqual’s research on assistive technology in assessment

Some exam papers don’t work well with assistive technology, causing “frustration” for teachers students, Ofqual research has found. The…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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20,000 students hit as UCAS glitch rejects university offers

Tens of thousands of students faced more stress this morning as a glitch in UCAS’s system automatically rejected their…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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A tenth of England’s schools and colleges named on Everyone’s Invited website

A tenth of all schools and colleges in England have been named in testimonies on the Everyone’s Invited website…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Sports charities demand clarity on future of £320m PE and sport premium

The leaders of 40 charities and sporting organisations have written to the government demanding “urgent clarity” on the future…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School sex abuse review: The Ofsted proposals, and what DfE has committed to

Ofsted has published its review into school sex abuse today. But what will change for schools? Here is your…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted inspectors to question schools that record no sex abuse cases

Inspectors will now interrogate schools that fail to provide a log of sex abuse cases and speak to pupils…

James Carr
James Carr


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Ofsted sex abuse review: Schools ‘consistently underestimated’ scale of problem

Ofsted has accused school leaders and teachers of “consistently underestimating” the scale of sexual abuse and harassment occurring among…

James Carr
James Carr
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PM incorrectly claims 6 million pupils will benefit from tutoring

The prime minister has incorrectly claimed in Parliament that six million pupils will benefit from the government’s tutoring reforms….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Minister denies education recovery ‘catalogue of chaos’ (but claims she doesn’t know why catch-up tsar resigned)

The government’s education recovery programme is not a “catalogue of chaos”, a minister has insisted, as she claimed she…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE extends pupil premium to children with ‘no recourse to public funds’ after legal threat

Schools will be able to claim additional pupil premium funding for children with “no recourse to public funds” who…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EPI: Recovery funding ‘little more’ than was spent on ‘Eat Out to Help Out’

Funding for education recovery in the next academic year amounts to “little more” than was spent on the month-long…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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Bring back face coverings in secondary schools and vaccinate pupils on site, say unions

Face coverings should be reintroduced in secondary school classrooms and for students in communal areas, unions representing teachers and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker