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Confirmed: 5.5% pay rise for new starters and 2.75% increase for all other teachers

The government has confirmed today that starting salaries for new teachers will rise by 5.5 per cent next year,…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teachers to get 3.1% pay rise, chancellor confirms

Teachers will get a 3.1 per cent pay rise, it has been announced today. The rise is mostly expected…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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NTP won’t be fully operational until Spring, plus 4 more catch-up funding details

The government’s £350 million national tutoring programme won’t fully “ramp up” until the spring term, with schools also not…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Revealed: The 37 special and AP free schools approved by the DfE

Two areas promised special schools have missed out after competitions to find sponsors were unsuccessful. The Department for Education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools’ tutoring scheme fund raided to pay for new £96m college catch-up

A scheme being designed to provide extra tuition for disadvantaged school pupils has been slashed by almost £100 million…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teach First to target axed trainees for new catch-up mentor roles

Teach First will attempt to recruit the trainees it dropped earlier this year to become mentors under the national…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Roll-out of ‘hard’ national funding formula delayed … again

The roll-out of a “hard” national funding formula has been delayed for at least another year – meaning schools…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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‘Badly targeted’ £80 per-pupil catch-up cash ‘unlikely’ to stop learning gap widening

The government’s £650m catch-up cash is “badly targeted” and “unlikely to prevent a widening” of the learning gap between…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Minimum secondary school per-pupil funding to rise to £5,150

Secondary schools will receive at least £5,150 for each pupil from 2021, the government has announced. Ministers have set…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Independent review to probe ed tech sector’s response to Covid-19

An independent review is being launched to investigate the response of the education technology sector to the coronavirus pandemic,…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Concerns over school meals as two major caterers announce redundancies

Fears about the capacity of school catering teams to provide meals from September have been raised after two of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Reassure parents about safety of schools if you want them to return to work, heads tell PM

The government must reassure parents it is safe for their children to return to school if it wants people…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker