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James Toop to leave Ambition School Leadership and Institute for Teaching

The chief executive of education charity Ambition School Leadership is to step down after eight years in the job,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE hands £4m in bailouts to schools that closed

Academies handed “exceptional” bailouts totalling £4 million over the last two years have still closed soon after, with the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Steiner free school vows to fight ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating in court

Governors of a Steiner free school branded ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted have vowed to fight the rating in the High…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School league tables: The best and worst-performing MATs, and other findings

New figures published by the government today reveal how well the country’s multi-academy trusts are performing. The Department for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School league tables: 346 secondaries below floor standards in 2018

The number of secondary schools falling below the government’s “floor standard” fell last year, but only after the results…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Over 40% of ‘underperforming’ schools improve when Progress 8 includes pupil background

More than 40 per cent of “underperforming” secondary schools would no longer fall into the category if progress measures…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Exam boards to choose own programming assessments for computer science GCSE

Exam boards will be free to choose how to assess pupils’ programming skills in the computer science GCSE from…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE: School improvement has ‘arrested or reversed’ in some sponsored academies

Converting schools to sponsored academies does not consistently cause pupil performance to get better – with school improvement actually…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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‘Don’t answer emails outside office hours’, education secretary tells teachers

The government will spend £10 million supporting the use of education technology in schools, Damian Hinds will announce today,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The 9 things the DfE must do to improve academy accountability, according to MPs

MPs have taken aim at the academies sector in a damning report that demands big changes to the government’s…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Academy failures have ‘damaged’ children’s education, warns cross-party committee of MPs

The government has been reprimanded by an influential cross-party group of MPs for allowing “a succession of high-profile academy…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Government to review counter-terrorism Prevent duty

The government has announced an independent review of its anti-extremism programme “Prevent”, which has received thousands of referrals of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker