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Trust rapped for £1.9k booze bill

An academy trust broke funding rules over £1,900 expenses on alcoholic drinks and a £450 Christmas meal for trustees,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Interserve seeks to reassure schools amid administration reports

Outsourcing giant Interserve, which provides services to more than 700 schools, is reportedly going to be put into administration…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Less than 1 in 5 teachers download DfE’s workload reduction toolkit

Less than one in five teachers in England have downloaded a toolkit launched by the government to help them…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE ‘minded’ to rebroker primary school from Inspiration Trust

An academy trust founded by a minister has been warned its flagship school could be rebrokered to another sponsor…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools need an extra £5.7 billion, says ASCL

School funding must be increased by £5.7 billion if every child is to receive the education they deserve, according…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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ASCL ‘forgotten third’ inquiry mulls ‘stage not age’ testing call

An influential commission on the future of GCSEs is considering recommending an end to the comparable outcomes system and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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We must be more ‘forensic’ in funding campaign, Barton warns

Tales of teachers having to buy equipment for their schools are “unhelpful” and are eclipsing the more serious impact…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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UTCs told to join MATs after Lord Baker U-turn

University technical colleges are being pressured to join multi-academy trusts after the programme’s architect Lord Baker U-turned on previous…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Surge in pupils with weapons sparks calls for more support

Leading schools sector voices are warning that staff need more help to keep classrooms safe, following a surge in…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Poorer pupils ‘catch up’ by end of primary, but fall behind again at GCSE

The attainment gap between the wealthiest and most disadvantaged pupils almost disappears by the end of primary school before…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Hinds to announce wellbeing focus at ASCL conference

Damian Hinds has commissioned his fifth advisory group since taking office – this time looking at boosting school teacher…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Cambridge International insists iGCSEs won’t change name amid ‘legal’ threat

An awarding organisation has insisted it will not allow the controversial iGCSEs to be renamed after the chair of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross