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Robert Halfon re-elected as education committee chair

Robert Halfon has been re-elected unopposed as the chair of the Parliamentary education committee. The Conservative MP’s re-election was…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Controversial headteacher Barry Smith to leave Inspiration Trust

Controversial head teacher Barry Smith is to leave the Great Yarmouth Charter Academy. Schools Week previously revealed that Smith…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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North-south divide makes little difference once pupil background is considered – study

The performance of children in the north of England is not “much different” to that of those based in…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ark trust pays £200k severance to former staff member over ‘HR shortcomings’

Ark Schools paid £200,000 to a former staff member in a non-contractual severance settlement relating to “shortcomings in its…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted proposes new ‘quality of education and training’ judgment for ITE

Ofsted wants to introduce a new “quality of education and training” judgment for its inspections of initial teacher education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Just 16% of cost-cutter savings actually enacted, plus 7 more findings

The government will today finally publish its evaluation on the school resource management adviser pilot. Schools Week has been…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Agnew: my cost-cutters have found £172m of savings

Lord Agnew says his money-saving experts have now found £172 million of potential savings in schools. But a new…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Girls twice as likely as boys to pass GCSE languages, EPI finds

Girls are more than twice as likely than boys to achieve a pass grade in GCSE languages, a new…

James Carr
James Carr
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MAT savings slammed as mythical in new report

Academies spend more on back-office functions than maintained schools do, and they don’t achieve economies of scale by forming…

James Carr
James Carr
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MP wants ban on ‘cruel and demeaning’ isolation booths

Schools should be banned from using “cruel and demeaning” isolation booths, an MP has said. Alex Sobel, the Labour…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Trust accused of ‘exploiting’ funding crisis with £3K curriculum planner

An academy trust has been accused of “financially exploiting the funding crisis” by selling a money-saving curriculum planning tool…

James Carr
James Carr
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DfE’s 2020 pay plans: 6 super interesting findings

The Department for Education published its evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body this week. The submission included statistics…

John Dickens
John Dickens