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Hinds: We’ll change admissions code to ‘accelerate’ school moves for children in need

The government will amend the school admissions code to “accelerate” the process of moving vulnerable children between schools, Damian…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EAL pupils outperform native speakers if they join schools early

Pupils with English as an additional language outperform native speakers if they join English schools at a young age,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Mental health training for new teachers

New teachers will be trained in how to spot the signs of mental health, it will be announced tomorrow….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Keep ‘ethos’ of UTCs you take on, DfE orders academy trusts

The government has committed to ensuring academy trusts uphold the “ethos” of the university technical colleges they take on,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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UTC support charity paid £7k for Lord Baker’s personal secretary

The Baker Dearing Educational Trust spent nearly £7,000 funding a personal secretary for UTC architect Lord Baker, while raising…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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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