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Tory leadership race: What does it mean for education?

Following Theresa May’s announcement that she will quit as prime minister before the next stage of Brexit negotiations, speculation…

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Freddie Whittaker
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Protests over religion and sex education reforms spread as MPs back changes

MPs have backed changes to relationships and sex education, as protests from parents against teaching primary pupils about LGBT…

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Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Limit pupils’ lunch portions to save money, say Agnew’s cost-cutting advisers

Lord Agnew’s cost-cutting consultants told a school to replace experienced teachers with support staff on term-time contracts, while another…

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John Dickens
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£45k-a-year private school warned over ‘serious regulatory failings’

A private school that charges over £45,000 a year has been warned it could be closed down by the…

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Pippa Allen-Kinross
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School capacity improves slightly as secondaries prepare for population bulge

The proportion of schools that were full or over-capacity fell slightly last year, new data shows. Department for Education…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted: Just 23% of reinspected outstanding schools kept their grade

More than three quarters of ‘outstanding’ schools reinspected by Ofsted in the last four months of last year failed…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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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