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Ministers to drop ambition to see all primary pupils back before summer – reports

The government is to drop its ambition to see all pupils return to primary school before the summer, according…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE to measure school staff happiness under new wellbeing charter

The government has committed to monitoring how happy school staff are, and will publish findings alongside a new wellbeing…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: QTS extension for trainees who haven’t made ‘adequate progress’

A “small minority” of trainee teachers who have fallen behind due to the coronavirus pandemic will have until December…

James Carr
James Carr
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New parent and pupil panel to aid Covid-19 policymaking

The government is setting up a new online panel of 5,000 pupils and parents who will complete fortnightly surveys…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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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