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Education becomes third most important election issue for parents

Education has become the third most important issue to parents in the current election campaign, according to new polling….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools with lower Ofsted ratings have to provide performance data more often

Teachers in schools rated ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate’ have to report more frequently on pupil performance, according to new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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High Court grants permanent exclusion zone at school in LGBT teaching row

Protesters have been permanently banned from campaigning against LGBT inclusive lessons outside of a school. The high court ruled…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Labour pledges review of BAME representation among teachers

Labour will launch a “wide-ranging review” into the under-representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic teachers in England’s schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Galling’ £111m arts premium plan is ‘too little too late’ – Barton

The Conservatives’ promise to fund an arts premium is “slightly galling” and “too little too late”, a union boss…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teachers taking on unpaid extra duties to satisfy ‘brutal’ new inspections, warns NEU

Teachers are having to take on additional responsibilities without extra pay under Ofsted’s new inspection regime, the National Education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Conservative manifesto 2019: the full list of schools policies

The Conservative party has published its manifesto for the 2019 general election today. There’s little new for schools other…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government testing agency pays Pearson £3m (but won’t say why)

The education giant Pearson has been revealed as the mystery supplier who received £3 million from the Standards and…

James Carr
James Carr
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David Cameron’s £67m STEM scheme fails to deliver, new figures reveal

The government is failing to fulfil its promise to upskill 15,000 teachers in maths and science under a £67…

James Carr
James Carr
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‘We will not be gagged’ – heads switch to personal email accounts to campaign on school funding

Hundreds of headteachers have used their personal email addresses to warn election candidates about school funding pressures, vowing: “We…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Labour manifesto 2019: the full list of schools policies

The Labour Party’s official manifesto for the 2019 general election has officially been launched this morning in Birmingham. Besides…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Labour to raise school spending by £10.5bn and give teachers a 5% pay rise

Labour has vowed to increase the schools budget by £10.5 billion by 2022-23 and hand school staff a 5…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker