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Former academies minister faces accusation of cronyism

Former academies minister Lord Nash has been accused of “threatening to allow” an academy trust to “become financially unviable”…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Academy trust loses spending records after finance system switch

An academy trust appears to have lost access to financial data from longer than two years ago after changing…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Poorer pupils in coastal areas end up 3 grades behind at GCSE

Disadvantaged pupils who live in coastal areas achieve about three grades lower at GCSE than those living in non-coastal…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Government gets tough on schools shortening weeks

The Department for Education (DfE) has been accused of having a “lack of understanding” of the financial pressures schools…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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DfE seeks company for £20m contract to supply sanitary products to schools

The government will spend up to £20 million supplying free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England, it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Suspensions and internal strife plague NASUWT as Keates stands down

Three senior national officials at one of the country’s largest teaching unions have been serving lengthy suspensions following disputes…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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NFER: 1 in 6 teachers want to reduce their hours

School leaders need to tackle the barriers stopping middle and senior staff from flexible working, researchers have said, as…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Revealed: The 22 new free schools approved by DfE

A chunk of the new 22 free schools approved today will open in academy trusts that have expanded rapidly…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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We’ll build trust in our school funding stats, says DfE chief

The Department for Education’s most senior civil servant has said he wants to build the department’s reputation as “a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Investigation launched after pupils given question ‘copied’ from textbook

An investigation has been launched after it emerged a question used in the Edexcel GCSE maths paper 3 this…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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International teachers struggle with poor pupil behaviour in English schools

International teachers struggled to settle in English schools because of poor pupil behaviour and heavy workloads, a new government…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted downgrades hundreds more ‘outstanding’ schools

Almost a third of previously ‘outstanding’ schools inspected since last September have dropped to ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’, Ofsted…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon