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Coronavirus: DfE to provide free laptops for disadvantaged year 10s

The government will provide free laptops and tablets for disadvantaged year 10s and other vulnerable pupils to help them…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE publishes furlough rules for schools

State schools that have private income streams such as catering, sports facilities lettings or boarding provision, can furlough these…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: Thousands of pupils with ‘no recourse to public funds’ to get free school meals

Children usually denied free school meals because of their parents’ immigration status have been granted temporary eligibility during the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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MPs to investigate underperformance of poor white pupils

The education select committee is to investigate the underachievement of white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. It will form the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: DfE cancels academies’ May budget forecast

Academies will no longer have to submit next month’s budget forecast return, after the government cancelled the collection because…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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DfE appoints Nick Timothy as non-executive director

Nick Timothy, a former New Schools Network director who served as chief of staff to prime minister Theresa May,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Coronavirus: DfE confirms August results days, abandoning ‘end of July’ deadline

GCSE and A-level results days will be in August this year, the government has announced, seemingly abandoning an aim…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Teachers join forces to create online curriculum hub

Teachers from across the country have recorded lessons that will be shared for free on a new online curriculum…

James Carr
James Carr
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Coronavirus: Ofqual launches consultation on 2020 calculated grade proposals

Ofqual is proposing pupils entered for exams in year 10 and below should now get calculated grades this summer….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: DfE relaxes rules around admissions appeals

The Department for Education is planning to relax regulations governing school admissions appeals so they are no longer required…

James Carr
James Carr
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DfE urges schools to stop checking swamped free meal voucher website, as system labelled ‘farcical’

Schools are being urged not to revisit the government’s national free school meal voucher website unable to cope with…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: PM urged to publish evidence on increased risks of reopening schools

The National Education Union has written to Boris Johnson demanding clarity on school and colleges reopening amid “unhelpful speculation”…

James Carr
James Carr