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Ministers concerned over ‘continuing drift’ of SEND pupils to special and AP schools

Ministers are concerned about the “continuing drift” of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities into special schools and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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MPs to investigate careers spending as quango gets more DfE funding

MPs will investigate whether careers funding is value for money after the government abandoned plans to make the Careers…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hundreds of schools offered government improvement support

More than 1,600 schools have been offered improvement support by the government after ministers changed how they intervene in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Academy option reopened for sixth-form colleges

The government is to reopen the option for sixth-form colleges to academise – widening its pool of potential sponsors….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted mulls creating school reviews website

Ofsted has refused to rule out creating a TripAdvisor-style reviews website for parents after more than three quarters of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads ‘not scared’ of industrial action over funding, says union leader

Headteachers are “not scared” of taking industrial action over school funding, says the head of the country’s largest school…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Help me sort out special needs funding, Hinds tells heads

The government will seek the views of schools on whether special needs funding should be reformed to make it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Online memory games can boost maths scores by 3 months, says EEF

Playing online games that aid short-term memory can help to boost maths scores for primary pupils by three months,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Move work experience to sixth form and spread it throughout the year, says think tank

Work experience should take place in sixth form and beyond and be spread throughout the year, rather than happening…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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OGAT under fire for plans to make misbehaving pupils repeat a year

An academy trust is under fire for its new behaviour policy that states poorly-behaved pupils will be kept behind…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Opportunity areas suffer from lack of cross-government support, MPs warned

Opportunity areas are suffering from a lack of support from other governmental departments, board representatives have warned MPs. The…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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OGAT to praise pupils more in behaviour system shake-up

A leading academy trust that pioneered the consequences behaviour system has shaken up its policy to introduce more praise…

John Dickens
John Dickens