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‘Requires improvement’ schools less likely to improve under new framework

Schools rated ‘requires improvement’ are less likely to improve under Ofsted’s new inspection framework, new data shows. The watchdog…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Williamson: ‘I’m asking schools to go to exceptional lengths in coronavirus fight’

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has written to schools today to thank them for the “incredible resilience and flexibility they…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: Trainees to qualify based on progress made towards teachers’ standards

Trainee teachers due to qualify this year will be judged on their completed assessments and progress towards the teachers’…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: School governors told to meet over Skype

School governors should adopt “alternative arrangements” for their meetings now that non-essential gatherings are banned, the government has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Committee of MPs to probe DfE’s response to disease

The response of the Department for Education to the coronavirus outbreak and the impact of the disease on schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: FSM vouchers to provide ‘£3 per meal’, as caterers criticised for ‘shameful’ hampers

Pupils are set to get weekly supermarket vouchers totalling £15 to replace their free school meal entitlements under a…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Ofqual admits teacher assessment not possible for all vocational qualifications 

Ofqual is “urgently” working out how to calculate grades for students studying vocational and technical qualifications this year, but…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: Heads expect ‘better’ safety guidance

The NAHT headteachers’ union has said it expects the government to publish “better” safety guidance for schools after vague…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Children’s minister claims relaxing SEND support rules ‘strikes right balance’

New emergency powers that “relax” requirements on councils to provide support for SEND pupils “strike the right balance in…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Coronavirus: Pay suppliers ‘as normal’, government tells schools

Schools should continue to pay their suppliers “as normal” even if their service delivery is disrupted or suspended by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: No change for schools as country enters lockdown

Schools will continue to open for vulnerable and key workers’ children, the government has confirmed, after the U.K. was…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: Universities warned over rush to unconditional offers

The universities regulator has said it will use “any powers available” to prevent institutions from switching pupils’ offers to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker