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High-quality CPD helps pupils more than performance-related pay, report claims

High-quality programmes of professional development for teachers are more effective at boosting pupils’ attainment than performance-related pay or lengthening…

James Carr
James Carr
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Ofqual to proceed with extra regulation of tech awards

The exams regulator will proceed with plans for greater regulation of technical award qualifications for 14 to 16-year-olds, amid…

James Carr
James Carr
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Coronavirus: What do schools need to know?

Public Health England has published guidance for schools and other educational settings about how they should respond to COVID-19,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Who is Baroness Berridge? 8 facts about the new academies minister

The Department for Education has confirmed that Baroness Berridge will be the new minister for the school system. While…

James Carr
James Carr
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Baroness Berridge confirmed as new academies minister

New education minister Baroness Berridge has taken on the school system brief previously held by Lord Agnew, the Department…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Unions warn the DfE: Don’t short-change experienced teachers

The government’s proposals to reform teacher pay risk “short-changing” more experienced teachers and exacerbating retention problems, education unions have…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Teaching’s ‘Oscars Night’: Get your nominations in

Schools from across the country are being urged to enter their star staff for a prestigious set of awards…

James Carr
James Carr
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After the storm: Who clears up when academy trusts collapse?

“I went through a calendar with someone in the first week and said: ‘I can see there is a…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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RSCs will give trusts ‘a steer’ on takeovers to avoid fruitless bids

The national schools commissioner has revealed academy trust bosses can get “a steer” on whether their plans to take…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted slams ‘untenable tension’ in wake of school strikes

A school in which disgruntled staff staged a series of strikes has been put in special measures after Ofsted…

James Carr
James Carr
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Figures show rise in teacher mental health sick days

Massage treatments, 24/7 helplines and walking groups are among the services schools are providing to help teachers’ mental wellbeing….

James Carr
James Carr
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Ofsted: ‘Mass entry to BTECs is not always gaming’

Ofsted has moved to quash fears among schools that enrolling a high percentage of pupils in certain BTEC qualifications…

James Carr
James Carr