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Revealed: The expert panel members tasked with improving teacher wellbeing

Union representatives, education experts and school leaders have been appointed to a 26-member expert panel tasked with improving the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Revealed: How ‘vital’ rural schools are fighting to survive

Rural schools are fighting for their lives as new figures show they made up 40 per cent of school…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Energy Coast becomes only second ever ‘outstanding’ UTC

A university technical college in Cumbria that outsourced its teaching is celebrating after becoming only the second of its…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Proportion of pupils with SEND continues to rise, and 4 more findings

Government statistics today have revealed the proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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6 interesting findings from the Language Trends 2019 report

Take-up of French and German languages has slumped, fewer schools are teaching languages at an early age, and Brexit…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ex-ASCL boss to lead headteacher standards review group

Malcolm Trobe, the former acting general secretary of the ASCL school leaders’ union, will chair a 12-member panel convened…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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TBAP criticised by Ofsted over AP academy where a third of staff were absent

Ofsted has slammed an academy trust after inspectors arrived at one of its schools to find more than a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools handed repairs cash ‘expected’ to follow DfE cost-cutting advice

Schools applying for government funding to repair unsafe buildings will now have to agree to a visit from a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ministers likely to consider ‘soft progression’ of excluded pupils, says ex-minister

The government is likely to consider holding schools accountable for the “soft progression” of excluded pupils and not just…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Timpson: I expect DfE to fund my review recommendations

The chair of a landmark review of exclusions expects the government to fund proposals put forward in his report,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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First 23 computing hubs in England announced

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) has revealed the first 23 hubs chosen to improve computer science education…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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2 in 5 pupils don’t know where to get mental health support in schools

Two in five pupils would not know how to access mental health support services in schools, and almost half…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross