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Two-fifths of schools have buckets catching drips from leaky roofs

Two in five teachers work in schools that have buckets set up to catch drips when it rains, it…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Microsoft researcher to head up new National Centre for Computing Education

A Microsoft researcher who also chairs the group behind the controversial master computing teachers programme has been put in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspectors must declare all consultancy work after rule change

Ofsted has tightened its conflicts of interest rules, with inspectors now forced to declare all of their previous and…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Rejected special school bids in areas facing biggest shortfalls

The majority of local authorities that have been refused new specialist schools will run out of places three years…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Let grammars use expansion cash to help secondary moderns, says leading head

A leading grammar head wants expansion cash redirected to encourage selective schools to give support to secondary moderns. This…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Improving schools won’t suffer under new inspection framework – Spielman

The chief inspector of schools has sought to reassure headteachers that improving schools will not be penalised under Ofsted’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Ofsted plans to entice middle leaders for inspection secondments

Ofsted is to launch a secondment programme for middle leaders who want to spend a year working as full-time…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Performance tables penalise schools with most vulnerable pupils, warns union boss

The current system of school league tables stigmatises schools and penalises those with the most vulnerable pupils, union leader…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted’s off-rolling focus may drive exclusions, leading heads warn

Confusion over Ofsted’s off-rolling focus may push more schools to permanently exclude pupils, a leading group of headteachers has…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ambition Institute plans apprenticeships so schools can dip into £200m levy pot

A teacher development charity is in talks to deliver new apprenticeships for teachers and leaders, including chief executives, in…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Trusts fail to make use of £500k DfE takeover funding

Trusts given hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government to take over struggling schools have failed to expand,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘We are rubbing pupils’ noses in disappointment’ – union boss

GCSEs “rub the noses of pupils in disappointment”, the leader of headteachers’ union ASCL will say today, as he…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker