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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
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82 per cent of headteachers prefer Hunt to Johnson, poll finds

Four-in-five headteachers believe Jeremy Hunt would make the best Conservative prime minister, a new poll has revealed. A survey…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£17m on offer for academy trust expansion – but it’ll depend on EBacc entries

The government will hand £17 million in additional funding to academy trusts to help “strong and high-potential” chains to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Teachers ‘to get 2.75% pay rise’ – reports

UPDATE: The government has now confirmed its plans for teacher pay in 2019-20. You can read about it here….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Investigation: Fair access? Hundreds of pupils shut out

Hundreds of pupils are failing to secure school places after being turned away by schools during in-year admissions –…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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The Herrington Q&A: ‘Let’s reframe how we talk about academies’

After more than a year of waiting, Schools Week was finally given an interview with Dominic Herrington. Here, the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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MPs demand to see secretive cost-cutter reports

The government must release reports by its school cost-cutting consultants to MPs and provide evidence of the value for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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NASUWT to face hearing over claims Chris Keates overstayed as general secretary

The NASUWT teaching union will face a hearing to determine whether it broke the law by allowing Chris Keates…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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9,000 pupils were entered for the wrong science paper

Around 9,000 pupils were entered for the wrong science GCSE paper last year, analysis by Ofqual has revealed. Last…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker