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School branded ‘inadequate’ over Islamic leaflet launches legal challenge

An Islamic girls’ school has launched a legal challenge after being rated ‘inadequate’ because inspectors discovered an “inflammatory leaflet”…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Vast majority of school business leaders are white, survey finds

Ninety-six per cent of school business leaders are white, a new survey has found, prompting warnings that “structural racism”…

James Carr
James Carr
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DfE gender pay gap closing – but men get bigger bonuses

Bonuses paid to men working at the Department for Education were on average 3.8 per cent larger than those…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EPI study highlights ‘lack of evidence’ on university outreach schemes

More evidence is needed to measure the impact of efforts by universities to widen participation, a new review has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Academics take aim at ‘flawed’ grammar school study

Eight leading education academics have hit back at a “flawed” study that claimed poor pupils at grammar schools were…

James Carr
James Carr
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Schools failing in legal duty to implement ‘accessibility plans’

Schools are falling foul of a legal duty to improve provision for disabled pupils, new research has warned. Disabled…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Free school rapped for off-rolling after ‘encouraging parents to home-educate children’

A free school has been criticised by Ofsted after inspectors found it encouraged parents to home-educate or find different…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted inspector fleeing fire finds escapes tied shut

An Ofsted inspector discovered fire escapes at a proposed private school were boarded up and didn’t work while trying…

James Carr
James Carr
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Teachers don’t trust ed tech firms, survey finds

More than half of teachers and school leaders don’t trust claims made by education technology companies, a new poll…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted considers probing curriculum narrowing in beefed-up MAT evaluations

New beefed-up evaluations of multi-academy trusts could see inspectors examine whether the curriculum is being narrowed across groups of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE’s alternative insurance scheme rolled-out to council schools

The Department for Education is rolling out its risk protection arrangement (RPA) to local authority-maintained schools after saving “more…

James Carr
James Carr
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DfE’s 2020 teacher pay proposals: Rise will cost schools £455m, plus 6 more findings

The Department for Education has published its recommendations on teacher pay for September 2020. We’ve got a news story…

John Dickens
John Dickens