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Academy rapped over consultancy payments to chair of trustees

A special school that paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to consultants, including one who served as its chair…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Inquiry opened into charity behind Birmingham Muslim School

The proprietor of a private Muslim school warned repeatedly about its operations by Ofsted is now under investigation by…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE threatens to reclaim £110k loan unless school joins a multi-academy trust

The government has threatened to forcibly claim back a £110,000 loan issued to a single-academy trust unless it joins…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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ITT review won’t squeeze out small SCITTs, insists Hinds

The education secretary has denied that he plans to get rid of small-scale teacher training programmes run by schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘It will have a long-lasting impact’ – Damian Hinds reflects on his new strategy

Following the most important announcement of Damian Hinds’s political career to date, Schools Week accompanied the education secretary on…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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New headsets monitor pupils’ brain waves to track concentration

English universities are interested in researching controversial headsets that claim to monitor if pupils are concentrating in class, say…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Accounts delayed as trust calls in forensic auditors

A multi-academy trust has had to delay publishing its accounts and bring in “forensic” auditors after its expansion to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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No-deal Brexit will end access to European teacher misconduct sanctions

Details of sanctions imposed on teachers in Europe will no longer be shared with English authorities in the event…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Hinds: 2% pay rise for teachers would be ‘affordable’

Schools can only afford to pay for a two per cent pay rise for teachers, the government has said,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted handed power to inspect all Steiner schools following failures

Ofsted now has the power to inspect all Steiner schools after the chief inspector called for a “thorough examination”…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted lacks government support to tackle inequalities, warns director

Ofsted feels unsupported in its efforts to tackle inequalities in the education system, a senior official from the watchdog…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupils won’t lose SATs marks for back-to-front commas, DfE tells primary heads

Primary school pupils will no longer lose marks if they write a comma back-to-front, the government has told headteachers…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg