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Free schools can follow Nightingale lead

The rapid creation of temporary Nightingale hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic shows free schools shouldn’t have to wait for…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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Achievement for All had ‘detrimental effect’, finds EEF trial

A whole-school improvement programme which has been used at over 4,000 schools across England has a “detrimental effect on…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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Ex-private school director ‘unable’ to repay £150k loan

The director of a private school that went bust had an “overdrawn” £150,000 loan when it collapsed, an investigation…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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Extend free school meal vouchers over summer holiday, says senior Tory MP

The government’s national free school meal voucher scheme should be extended to cover the summer holidays, the chair of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Private school closures will put pressure on state

The closure of private schools unable to weather the economic hit from Covid-19 will put more pressure on state…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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Coronavirus: AQA exam portal is ‘ripe for human error’, schools warn

An exam board’s online portal that requires schools to input potentially thousands of teacher-assessed grades one-by-one is “ripe for…

James Carr
James Carr


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Coronavirus: Heads struggle to keep up with DfE guidance updates

School leaders have had to read almost 100 updates to government guidance during the coronavirus crisis – a quarter…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Trust was warned over local spike days before it was forced to close school

An academy trust forced to close one of its schools days after reopening because of a coronavirus case had…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Recruitment fears as schools withdraw training placements

A “worryingly high” number of schools have pulled out of offering teacher training placements for the next academic year…

James Carr
James Carr
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AP settings to get £7m post-16 transition funding, but only for one year

Alternative provision settings will given up to £750 for each year 11 pupil to aid their transition into post-16…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Back-to-school decisions are ‘hard balancing act’, chief medical officer admits

The chief medical officer has said it’s “understandable” that parents are “thinking very hard” about whether they should send…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Summer schools, home-learning expectations and Ofsted – how experts think pupils can catch up

The education select committee heard from social mobility experts today on how pupils can catch-up as part of its…

John Dickens
John Dickens