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DfE urged to give long-term poor more pupil premium cash

The government should consider handing schools more pupil premium funding for those children with long-term disadvantage, the Social Mobility…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Parents want more ‘outstanding’ schools inspected, plus 4 more Ofsted findings

Parents want ‘outstanding’ schools inspected more often, but believe short inspections are increasingly behind unreliable judgments. Ofsted has published…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted: Ditching grading system for pass/fail could cause more ‘gaming’

Ofsted has released a new report in defence of its under-fire grading system – warning a move to a…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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GCSE reforms led to more mock exams, report warns

Reforms to GCSEs intended to cut the amount of time pupils spend in exams have actually led to an…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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‘Stay in school and become a scientist’ Hinds tells climate strikers

Pupils in England should stay in school and become climate scientists to help solve the problems of the future,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Forced out: The experienced teachers losing their livelihoods as schools cut costs

Hundreds of teachers have seen experienced colleagues forced out to make room for cheaper workers, new data has revealed,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Council battles academy trust over £4 million unpaid bill

A cash-strapped council is trying to sue an academy trust for more than £4 million over alleged unpaid services….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Major private school chain quits Teachers’ Pension Scheme

At least ten private schools are in talks with a school leaders’ union about pulling out of the Teachers’…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Careers and Enterprise Company will continue to rely on public cash, admits DfE

The Careers and Enterprise Company will continue to be reliant on government handouts after ministers dropped their ambition for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE didn’t look into failed UTC’s finances

The government chose not to investigate when auditors were unable to properly scrutinise the finances of a failed university…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Delta DID ‘flatten the grass’, emails show

Emails seen by Schools Week reveal senior leaders at an academy trust arranged and encouraged support for a controversial…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Harris schools swamp ESOL exam with native English speakers

A top trust last year entered hundreds of native English speakers into a qualification intended for pupils with English…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg