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Councils spent thousands sending vulnerable kids to illegal school

Councils have been warned to carry out the proper checks on school placements for vulnerable youngsters after it emerged…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Matt Hood to leave Ambition Institute role

Matt Hood, chief education officer at the Ambition Institute, has announced he will leave the organisation at the end…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Researchers given £2.6m grant to investigate impact of school exclusions

A research team led by the University of Oxford has been granted £2.55 million to analyse the consequences of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ormiston school rapped for off-rolling pupils to PRU

A school that Ofsted commended for improving teaching and raising standards has been rated ‘inadequate’ after inspectors uncovered the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Bucks 11-plus test error ‘not sufficient grounds’ for grammar school appeals

Parents have been warned an error on the 11-plus test in Buckinghamshire is not enough to warrant an appeal…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE forced to update progress 8 scores AGAIN after GCSE statistics error

Another error in the progress 8 scores provided to schools by the government has been identified, this time related…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Gavin Williamson’s conference speech: The full text

It is a great honour to serve as Education Secretary…   Serving the young people who will become the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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False widow spiders force London school to shut

A school in north London had to close following a false widow spider infestation. The Michaela Community School, in…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Williamson pledges a maths school in every region

Gavin Williamson has pledged to open a maths free school “in every region” of England. The education secretary made…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government spending plans ‘leave 80% of schools worse off next year’

Government spending plans will still leave four in five schools worse off next year than they were in 2015,…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Two in five don’t trust government to run schools well – poll

More people distrust government when it comes to running schools well than trust them, new data shows. A ComRes…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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20,000 sent to faith schools despite requesting secular education

More than 20,000 children started at faith schools in England this month, despite choosing secular schools as their first…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross