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Schools should ‘consider implications’ of teachers offering paid tuition, says Sutton Trust

Schools have been warned to “consider the implications” of teachers offering or promoting paid tuition after a survey found…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Academy trust leaders struggling to juggle finances and growth

The majority of academy trust leaders are worried that growth could have a negative effect on schools in their…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Ofsted warns of ‘excessive’ restraint after 300% rise in violence at ‘unsafe’ special school

“Excessive” use of restraint, growing violence and “serious” behaviour problems have been uncovered in a damning Ofsted report of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Teachers want professional help to tackle exclusions, says RSA

Teachers want help from professionals to tackle exclusions rather than undergoing more training, a new survey has found. A…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Extend free school meals to secondary pupils, says shadow minister

Labour should look to extend the availability of free school meals to secondary schools “at the earliest possible opportunity”,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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State schools fall behind in harnessing alumni to boost pupils’ job prospects

Private schools are more than twice as likely as their state counterparts to call on alumni to help open…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon


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17 new free schools opened with no sports facilities

Seventeen free schools that opened last year did not have any on-site sports facilities, the government has admitted. A…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Labour pledges 32-hour working week, but will it work for teachers?

School staff and other workers across England have been promised “a shorter working week with no loss of pay”…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Boss of failed WCAT ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen for his offices’

The head of Wakefield City Academies Trust spent £1,500 on a dog pen for his offices as his trust…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Anti-private school motion passes at Labour conference

Delegates at the Labour Party conference have passed a motion calling on the party to “integrate” private schools into…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Angela Rayner: Full text of Labour Conference 2019 speech

Labour activists heard from Angela Rayner at the party’s annual conference this morning. Here is what she said. Conference,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The 4 schools policies in Angela Rayner’s Labour conference speech

Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, has addressed the Labour Party conference in Brighton. In a short speech, Rayner…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker