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First choice offers fall for both primary and secondary schools

The proportion of pupils getting their first choice offers for both primary and secondary schools fell this year, as…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ministers warned over RSE ‘loopholes’ as Charedi schools seek to block LGBT teaching

Ministers have been accused of leaving “loopholes” in new relationships and sex education guidance after it emerged some Jewish…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Respect our staff’ – union posters seek to stop pupils and parents abusing teachers

Schools are being encouraged to put up posters to make it clear to pupils, parents and visitors that they…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Give WCAT’s leftover cash to schools it left behind, says MP

Money handed back to the government by an academy trust that collapsed two years ago must be returned to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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11-plus provider CEM bought by Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press

The University of Durham’s Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), a leading provider of the 11-plus test, has been…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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Keep schools open late to tackle knife crime, says children’s commissioner

Schools in areas with high levels of serious youth violence should remain open in the evenings and at weekends…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Revealed: The extent of speech and language therapy spending cuts across England

Spending on speech and language therapy (SLT) has been slashed in half of areas, according to a report which…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Academy teachers promoted three years earlier than those in LA schools

Teachers in the largest academy trusts are promoted on average three years earlier than their peers in LA-maintained schools,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools account for ‘relatively small’ variance in pupils’ grades, and 4 more key findings

New research has suggested that school reforms in the past two decades have failed to bridge the gap in…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Michael Gove banned four teachers for cocaine possession

At least four teachers were banned from the profession for being caught with cocaine during Michael Gove’s tenure as…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates to stand down

Chris Keates is to step down as general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union after 15 years in the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Cuts jeopardise leading alternative provision

The only “outstanding” pupil referral unit in North Yorkshire could close by Christmas, leading to fears students won’t have…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon