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Lord Agnew’s DfE career in Schools Week front pages

Lord Agnew, the former academies minister, has departed the Department for Education. The academy trust founder has got a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE in ‘serious data breach’ after naming whistleblowers

The government chose not to redact the names of three whistleblowers who gave evidence relating to cheating allegations against…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE proposes legal definition of ‘full-time’ education

The government is seeking to define what constitutes full-time education in law for the first time, as part of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Three-quarters of grammars turned down for £14.3m expansion cash

Six grammar schools across four local authority areas will split £14.3 million to expand and create an extra 1,100…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Baroness Berridge appointed as education minister

Baroness Berridge has been appointed parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department for Education. The Conservative peer was…

James Carr
James Carr
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Ministers want academy trusts to open their own AP

Some of England’s largest academy trusts are considering establishing their own alternative provision for excluded pupils. It comes as…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Exclusive: Lord Agnew ‘to leave’ the DfE

Academies minister Lord Agnew is to leave the Department for Education, Schools Week understands. The Tory peer has been…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted extends curriculum grace period for a year

Schools will get an extra year to bring their curriculum into line with Ofsted’s new inspection framework, after the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Williamson and Gibb re-appointed in post-Brexit reshuffle

Gavin Williamson will continue in the role of education secretary following a reshuffle that saw a number of his…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Williamson to scrap 5,000 qualifications, but BTECs review delayed

A consultation on plans to remove funding for more than 5,000 legacy qualifications at level three and below has…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Revealed: £120k ‘cost-cutter’ savings at case study school were already being implemented

Cost-cutting measures that saved £120,000 at an academy singled out as a success story of Lord Agnew’s controversial resource…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government’s ‘obsession’ with phonics is driven by need to help working-class white boys

The underperformance of white working-class boys in England’s education system is what has driven the government’s “obsession” with reading…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker