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Councils wary of challenging ‘powerful’ academy CEOs over exclusions, warns Wilshaw

Councils have become “wary” of intervening with “powerful” academy trust CEOs over exclusions because they have been “marginalised” in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pooling school budgets ‘wasn’t as painful as you might think’, says academy trust boss

The leader of one of England’s largest academy trusts has revealed she was forced to pool her schools’ funding…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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David Ross Education Trust appoints Christine Counsell to help develop new curriculum

A leading curriculum expert has joined the David Ross Education Trust as it steps up its focus on developing…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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The DfE doesn’t like its own GCSE pass thresholds, claims Forgotten Third inquiry chair

The Department for Education is no fan of its own pass thresholds for GCSEs, according to the chair of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools have lost £5.4bn since 2015, unions claim

Schools face a funding shortfall of £5.4 billion despite extra funding to cover teacher pay rises, six unions have…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE ‘considering options’ for free sanitary products in primaries

The government is “considering options” for supporting primary school children with access to free sanitary products, a minister has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Brexit nudges funding formula to the back of the line

The national funding formula sits in the wings while the government attempts to sort Brexit. But is it worth…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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ESFA spends over £500k on cash awards for staff

The Education and Skills Funding Agency spent more than £500,000 on cash awards for civil servants last year. A…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE plans new national computing SCITT despite other centres struggling to recruit

The government is planning a new national SCITT for computing, despite other subject-specific training centres failing to hit recruitment…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE spent £15k defending nationality data collection months before it was scrapped

The Department for Education spent almost £15,000 defending its divisive pupil nationality and country of birth data collection in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ESFA reveals church school exemption to related-party transactions rule

Church schools will not need to seek prior approval to buy services from their diocese, the Education and Skills…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Losing teachers, cutting curriculum and parent donations: heads speak out about funding woes

Schools are shedding staff, relying on parent donations and eyeing curriculum savings to meet capital funding cuts – as…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross