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Shanghai maths teacher exchange failed to boost KS2 outcomes, DfE report finds

A flagship government exchange programme which sent teachers to China to learn about the “maths mastery” approach did not…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Make ministers sign off top academy CEO pay, say governors

The academies sector should consider adopting an NHS-style pay system where government approval is needed to award high salaries…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Union ordered to reinstate sacked employee after whistleblowing row

England’s second largest teaching union has been ordered to reinstate a sacked employee after an employment tribunal found it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: The schools saving thousands slashing executive salaries

Some smaller trusts are slashing inflated leadership salaries – with one saving a six-figure sum in the process. Four…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Investigation: Meet the head paid £260k to run one school

A single-school academy trust has upped the pay of its top executive to £260,000, making him one of the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Unconditional offers could be illegal, regulator warns

Universities that use controversial unconditional offers to “put pressure” on school pupils could be breaking the law, the higher…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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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