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Unions: Allow grade inflation next year – but not as much as 2020

Education unions have said it would be “unconscionable” for this year’s exam results to be pegged to grades achieved…

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James Carr
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Three new studies will assess post-Covid disadvantage gap

Three new studies focusing on the strategies schools used to support pupils during Covid-19 closures have been announced today….

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James Carr
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Facebook targets teachers urging them to ‘request help” for any school supplies

Facebook has urged teachers to use its social media platform to request help if they need school supplies.  The…

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Simon Kay

Sonia Thompson’s blogs of the week, 28 September 2020

New children’s literature, new early years guidance, new resources for busy teachers and a new method to develop students’…

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How schools are live-streaming lessons around the world

Teachers are donning wireless microphones while pupils are replaced by webcams as schools invest thousands of pounds to live…

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Leading the way in diversity in literature at GCSE

Following the release of the Missing Pages paper from educational charity, Teach First, we wanted to express our commitment…

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Revealed: The gaps in teachers’ pensions worth thousands

Teachers’ pensions could be tens of thousands of pounds short because of administrative failures – with the government admitting…

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Simon Kay
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Academy orders can be revoked if schools improve to ‘good’, DfE confirms

Failing maintained schools that become ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before converting into academies can have their academy orders revoked, the…

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Freddie Whittaker
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Staff and pupils recommended to layer up as schools work to keep classrooms ventilated

Staff and pupils are being told to layer up as schools struggle to keep classrooms both ventilated for covid…

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Samantha Booth
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Oak National Academy users double to 250k as schools return

Almost a quarter of a million pupils have logged on to Oak National Academy as the number of pupils…

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James Carr
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How schools became the battleground of Cummings’s culture war

Schools have been hurled into the centre of a “culture war” by the publication of unexpected guidance thought to…

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Freddie Whittaker
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‘Compelling logic’ in call to scrap GCSEs, says Green

Calls to scrap GCSEs deserve “serious consideration”, the shadow education secretary has said, as she pledged a review of…

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Freddie Whittaker