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Rebooted Troops to Teachers fails to take off

Gavin Williamson’s rebooted attempts to train more armed forces veterans as teachers has been labelled “pointless” after take-up tanked….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Academy in one of England’s poorest areas soars in school league tables

A sponsored academy in one of the country’s poorest neighbourhoods has been named in the top 10 schools in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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UTC faces apprentice recruitment freeze after Ofsted criticism

The first university technical college to receive an early monitoring visit for its apprenticeship provision has been heavily criticised…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE’s testing agency pays £3m to settle mystery legal dispute

The Department for Education’s Standards and Testing Agency paid out £3 million to settle a legal dispute to a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Lowest attaining early years pupils fall further behind as progress stalls

The gap between the lowest-attaining early years pupils and the rest of their cohort has widened again this year….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Proportion of pupils reaching top A-level grades falls further

The proportion of A-level pupils reaching the top grades has fallen even further this year, despite prior attainment remaining…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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ESFA chief warns 12 academy trusts over CEO pay

Twelve academy trusts have been told to justify high levels of executive pay in their organisations. Eileen Milner, the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Drop in the number of trainee teachers needed next year

More than 1,500 fewer primary trainee teachers and 602 fewer secondary trainees are needed to start courses in 2020-21,…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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School league tables 2019: Languages continue to hold back EBacc entries

The government has released provisional key stage 4 data this morning that reveals how schools have fared in headline…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EBacc results 2019: Slight rise in entries and average point score

Two in five pupils in England now enters the full suite of EBacc subjects, new data shows. Provisional key…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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4 interesting findings from the EPI’s free schools analysis

The Education Policy Institute has published a new report on free schools today. Schools Week has the key findings…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Free schools ‘failing to reach most disadvantaged areas’

The government’s flagship free schools programme is failing to reach some of England’s lowest performing areas and disproportionately drawing…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon