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School told to ‘engage fully’ with DfE cost-saving tools or face funding termination

An academy in Northumberland has been told it must use cost-saving resources provided by the government or face having…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools targeted with fake Ofsted banners over ‘inadequate’ LGBT sex and relationships education

Dozens of schools in London have been targeted with fake Ofsted banners by youth activists as part of a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted wins appeal against Durand Academy High Court ruling

Ofsted has won its appeal against a decision by the High Court to quash its negative report into the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE paid £9k for minister’s business class trip to Argentina

The academies minister Lord Agnew and three advisers were flown to Argentina this summer at a cost of more…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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2021 key stage 2 SATs will clash with Eid, DfE reveals

It “may be appropriate” for schools to vary their SATs timetables in 2021 because the test week is set…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Two thirds of academy trusts have below-average results for disadvantaged pupils

Two in three academy trusts are under-performing with regard to poorer pupils, a new report has found. New research…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Government names first 25 areas to get school ‘mental health support teams’

Schools in 25 English areas will be the first to receive help from new mental health support teams. The…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted’s gender pay gap grows while the DfE’s narrows

The gender pay gap at Ofsted has increased since last year, despite pressure on organisations to narrow the disparity…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Post-Brexit immigration policy could hit teacher recruitment, government admits

The government has warned that schools could be negatively affected by new rules restricting the rights of EU citizens…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE’s teaching jobs board won’t reach all schools until April 2019

The national roll-out of a long-awaited state-run teacher jobs website won’t be complete until next April, the government has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Areas with greatest SEND support demand will ‘lose out’ on high needs cash injection

Areas with large proportions of SEND pupils will lose out on extra high needs funding announced by the government…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Top trusts ‘resist’ standardising curriculum, and 6 more MAT research findings

High-performing multi-academy trusts and federations of schools are resisting rolling out prescriptive practices for curriculum and pedagogy, a study…

John Dickens
John Dickens