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Government suggests schools relax phone bans to allow use of NHS Covid app

The government has suggested that schools with bans on mobile phones relax their policies in order to allow pupils…

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The Skills Network offer award-winning LMS at no cost

Last month, leading learning technology provider The Skills Network (TSN) announced that it will permanently offer its award-winning learning…

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Schools to stay open as Johnson announces tougher lockdown restrictions

Schools, colleges and universities “will stay open”, despite a ramping up of lockdown restrictions in England, Boris Johnson has…

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Proportion of schools not fully open due to Covid quadruples in a week

The proportion of schools reporting that they are not fully open because of suspected or confirmed cases of Covid-19…

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Freddie Whittaker
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Starmer demands taskforce to close attainment gap

A national taskforce run by an independent body like the children’s commissioner should be set up to plan a…

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Freddie Whittaker
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Heads’ anxiety peaked before lockdown and school reopenings, finds UCL study

Anxiety among headteachers peaked after partial school closures and phased reopenings were announced, but teachers’ wellbeing stayed “largely the…

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Teachers fifth on priority list for testing, but no place for school pupils

Teachers with Covid-19 symptoms will be fifth on the government’s priority list for testing, it has been announced. But…

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Freddie Whittaker
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NFER finds Covid effect could eradicate most teacher shortfalls, but heads urge caution

Teacher recruitment shortfalls in most subjects look set to be eradicated because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report…

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Covering black history is good teaching, says Gibb

Good history teaching should “always include the contribution of black and minority ethnic people to Britain’s history”, the schools…

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Fears HSE spot checks will be latest outsourcing ‘disaster’

The government’s “disastrous” record on outsourcing has left school leaders fearing the new coronavirus health and safety spot checks…

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Nicky Phillips
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Financial warning for academy trust over ‘incorrect use’ of revenue funds

An academy trust has been ordered to reduce the number of bank accounts it holds, after it incorrectly used…

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TV presenter deletes tweet supporting back-to-school campaign

A TV presenter has deleted a tweet that supported the government’s back-to-school campaign. Kirsty Gallacher may have flouted advertising…

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