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Three-year GCSEs? No ‘outstanding’ for you

Inspectors allegedly told school leaders that awarding an ‘outstanding’ rating was out of the question because they ran three-year…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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EPI analysis: How the parties’ education plans could affect pupil attainment

The Education Policy Institute has delved into each party’s election commitments to see if they will boost outcomes, particularly…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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‘Confidential’ Ofsted guidance for curriculum ‘deep dives’ leaked

Confidential documents used to train Ofsted inspectors for curriculum “deep-dives” have been leaked to at least one school, prompting…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Special consideration requests fall for the first time in 5 years

The number of special consideration request made for GCSE and A-level exams in England fell by 4 per cent…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Labour would cap secondary class sizes at 30

Labour’s pledge to cap primary class sizes at 30 will also apply to secondary schools, Angela Rayner will announce…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Warnings over impact of Gove reforms and off-rolling on attainment gap

The attainment gap between poor pupils and their peers widens when off-rolled youngsters are taken into account, a new…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Blacklisted academy bosses were a one-off, says DfE

Academy bosses being secretly banned from running other schools has happened on just the one occasion, the government claims….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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PISA 2018: Maths up, no improvement in reading or science

England’s pupils are performing better in maths, but have made no improvement in reading or science for 13 years,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School launches legal challenge saying ‘inadequate’ grade over gaming is ‘nonsensical’

A secondary school rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted for entering all its year 11 pupils into a vocational PE qualification…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Stats watchdog warns Tories and Labour over ‘unclear’ manifesto claims

Both the Conservatives and Labour made “unclear” statements about education in their election manifestos, the statistics watchdog has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Layla Moran: Our manifesto pledges will help deliver 20k teachers target

The Liberal Democrats are counting on their reforms to school accountability, testing and teacher pay and development to deliver…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Anti-terror schools project to branch out to boys at risk of far-right extremism

A project to deter vulnerable teenage girls from radicalisation may be extended to reach working-class boys at risk of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross