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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


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No serving teachers on DfE’s new education apps advisory panel

A new panel set up to assess and quality-mark education apps for young children includes no serving teachers. The…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds meets with faith leaders to push academisation

The education secretary has met with representatives of all major religions today in a new push to encourage them…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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No pay rise for highest-paid academy chief for the first time in six years

Sir Dan Moynihan, the country’s highest-paid academy trust boss, has not been handed a pay rise for the first…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofqual confirms changes to music and dance exams

A shake-up to the way performances are marked in music and dance GCSEs and A-levels has been announced by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted strategy director Luke Tryl to lead New Schools Network

The New Schools Network has hired Luke Tryl, an Ofsted director and former adviser to Nicky Morgan, as its…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Nine in ten schools struggle to recruit EBacc teachers, and eight other findings from the DfE’s school snapshot survey

The results of a large-scale survey of teachers and leavers reveal problems with key government policies such as the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross