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DfE: Holland Park School did not break rules over luxury spending

The government has ruled that a single-academy trust that spent thousands on luxury paint and pays its head £260,000…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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£2.5m scheme to help schools open-up facilities to get more kids active

Hundreds of after-school clubs will be created and school facilities will be opened up at weekends and holidays as…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Teach First offered places to 82% of assessed applicants

Teach First has recruited its largest cohort of trainee teachers by allowing way more applicants through assessment and taking…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Tighten rules on parental consultation before academy conversion, DfE told

Ministers are under pressure to draw up stronger rules on how thoroughly schools must consult before becoming academies after…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Mental health training programme for schools rolled out nationally

A programme to improve mental health training in schools and strengthen partnerships with professional NHS services will be rolled…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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QTS skills tests set to be scrapped

The numeracy and literacy skills entry tests that prospective teachers must pass to start training are set to be…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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State schools find it much harder to access university partnerships

Schools serving deprived communities are more than two-and-a-half times more likely to encounter barriers in getting university access help…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Scrap EBacc and reform Progress 8 to tackle creative subjects slump, ministers told

Ministers should ditch the EBacc and reform the Progress 8 performance measure to arrest the slump in the number…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Social Mobility Commission chair gets new £350-a-day pay deal

Dame Martina Milburn will be paid £350-a-day for her work as the chair of the Social Mobility Commission after…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE to consult on bringing LA school transparency ‘in line’ with academies

The Department for Education will consult on plans to bring the transparency of spending in local authority maintained schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE: 54,000 fewer pupils in ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ schools

Fifty-four thousand fewer pupils are now learning in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’-rated schools than were two years ago, the Department…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Academies minister to ‘look into’ whistleblowing procedures

Lord Agnew, the academies minister, has pledged to look at whistleblowing procedures for academy trusts to ensure those who…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker