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Labour leadership Q&A: Rebecca Long-Bailey

Less than a month remains until the end of the Labour leadership contest, with party members across the country…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Labour leadership Q&A: Sir Keir Starmer

Less than a month remains until the end of the Labour leadership contest, with party members across the country…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Heads summoned to DfE meeting to discuss potential school closures

Leadership unions and academy representatives have been summoned to the Department for Education to discuss schools’ response to coronavirus….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School leaders lap up controversial MBA apprenticeship

School leaders are taking advantage of a controversial management apprenticeship that education secretary Gavin Williamson is “unconvinced” provides value…

James Carr
James Carr
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Ofsted amends report of Harris school at centre of framework row after admitting inspection error

Ofsted has amended the report of a school run by one of its most high-profile critics after inspectors wrongly…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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CEO pay 2019: Fewer than 1 in 5 reduce salaries despite government warning

We analysed over 250 academy trust accounts for Schools Week’s annual CEO pay league table investigation – here’s what…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Do what’s best for pupils, even if government doesn’t like it, Barton tells heads

Schools leaders should defy the government and snub GCSE English to help the “forgotten third” of pupils destined to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Nearly nine in ten ‘satisfied’ with Ofsted’s new inspections

Nearly nine in ten respondents to a post-inspection survey since September are satisfied with their inspection, according to new…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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No school closures yet as government moves to coronavirus ‘delay’ phase

Closing schools at this stage in the spread of the coronavirus epidemic could do “more harm than good”, Boris…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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A-level drop-out rate continues to rise

Drop-out rates among pupils studying for their A-levels and other 16 to 19 qualifications rose across the board last…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Budget 2020: What do schools need to know?

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his budget address in Parliament. Here are the announcements relevant to schools.  …

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Help us nationalise more private schools, head tells DfE

A leader who converted his prestigious private school into a state school has said the government should set up…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker