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PM dodges questions about ‘workhouse’-style recommendations of cost-saving advisers

The prime minister this week dodged questions about her government’s cost-saving interventions in schools, despite claims the advice “belonged…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ministers have U-turned on 33 attempts to force schools to become academies

The government has revoked more than 30 academy orders, some after schools have spent years in limbo and often…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Academies Enterprise Trust warned it could lose ‘inadequate’ primary school

England’s biggest academy chain has been warned it could lose one of its schools after it was placed in…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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England’s largest academy trusts see gender pay gap widen

The gender pay gap has widened at most of the country’s largest academy trusts, with women paid 55p for…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Heads demand Ofsted consider ‘uneven school funding’

A group of leading headteachers wants Ofsted to take the “uneven funding” of schools into account as part of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link

Poor pupils in rural schools are more likely to get low GCSE scores than their disadvantaged peers in every…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Exposed: The academy trust chief who boasted he ‘flicked away’ safeguarding concerns

An academy trust boss has boasted that he simply “flicked away” safeguarding complaints made by a whistleblower at a…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Hinds demands end to ‘unethical’ unconditional offers

The education secretary has warned 23 universities regarding their use of “unethical” unconditional offers, following warnings that school pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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LocatED shortlists up to 20 school sites to be sold off under pilot scheme

Up to 20 school sites have been shortlisted by the government’s education property company as having surplus land that…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools warned not to share pupil data on Capita’s file transfer systems ‘until further notice’

Schools have been warned not to use Capita’s file transfer systems until further notice after a glitch hit its…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Tenth UTC closure announced

Yet another university technical college will close later this year, taking the total to 10 for the troubled programme….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Less than a third of heads think GCSEs prepare pupils for work

Confidence in GCSEs as a good preparation for work among headteachers slumped last year, according to a new survey…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker