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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
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CPD firms struggle as funding squeeze shifts landscape

Two major school membership organisations have posted losses as schools tighten their belts in the face of budget restraints….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Labour would replace Ofsted with Local Authority ‘health checks’

A Labour government would replace Ofsted with a new inspection system involving local authorities running “health checks” on schools….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted recruits 30 inspectors to ramp up outstanding school visits

Ofsted has launched a £2 million pound recruitment push ahead of the expected lifting of the exemption for “outstanding”…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England and Wales from September 2019

The new teacher and school leadership pay rates for 2019-20 have been confirmed by the Department for Education. In July,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Investigation: The free schools left homeless for years

Almost half of the new free schools of the past three years opened in temporary accommodation, with most still…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross