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Boris Johnson as PM: What can schools expect?

Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and foreign secretary, has been named as the new leader of the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Former Conservative MP and academy chief join Ofsted board

A former Conservative MP who stood down after being tainted in the parliamentary expenses scandal has been appointed to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Policy Exchange: New PM must support knowledge-based curriculum

The Policy Exchange think tank has called on the next prime minister to continue support for a knowledge-based curriculum,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Council drops academy trust support despite turnaround – as conversion stalls

An academy trust that provided more than five years of improvement services to a failing maintained school while negotiations…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted’s warning as investigation finds most Steiner schools aren’t ‘good’

Ofsted has identified “serious issues” at Steiner schools across England, rating more than three quarters of them as ‘inadequate’…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Teacher pay deal ‘the worst of all worlds’, say heads

Schools face having to cut their budgets in order to afford next year’s teacher pay settlement, headteachers have warned….

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Freddie Whittaker


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Teacher pay 2019-20: What do schools need to know?

The government has confirmed teacher pay arrangements from September, but schools face having to fund most of the pay…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government STRB response 2019: 2.75% pay rise across all grades, but it’s not fully-funded

Pay for all teachers and school leaders will rise by up to 2.75 per cent next year, but the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspections cause teacher stress, and 4 other findings from Ofsted’s wellbeing research

Ofsted has found its own inspections are among a host of reasons for poor teacher wellbeing, according to new…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Revealed: 76 BTECs facing the axe in post-16 qualifications review

The Department for Education has confirmed plans to withdraw funding for 163 qualifications that “overlap” with A-levels – including…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Indecent proposals: 111 curriculum suggestions made to schools this year

Schools have been told they should teach pupils how to examine X-rated movies, get a good night’s sleep and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pearson: No plans to phase out print textbooks in UK (yet)

Education publisher Pearson has insisted there are currently “no specific plans” to phase out print textbooks in the UK,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross