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Barring pupils with fewer than three Ds ‘access to student loans’ is ‘retrograde step’

Leaked proposals that would deny student loans to pupils who achieve fewer than three Ds in their A-levels have…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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School leaders join forces to launch staff absence insurance

A group of school leaders has joined forces to offer an alternative staff absence insurance, with talks ongoing to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Policy Exchange: Deny top Ofsted grades to schools that fail to demand good behaviour

Schools should only be rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ if they demand “higher standards of behaviour” from their pupils, the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Salford Academy Trust minutes reveal boardroom rift

Board minutes from a doomed academy trust reveal a boardroom rift between trustees who accused one of their sponsors…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools to get £350m extra SEND funding, but heads warn it’s ‘not enough’

The government will hand councils an extra £350 million in funding to support pupils with special educational needs and…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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School data security incidents rise in wake of GDPR

The number of data security incidents reported by the education sector rocketed by more than 43 per cent after…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Fact check: How many free schools have actually closed?

Neither ministers nor the opposition are giving the full picture when it comes to free school closures,  analysis by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Cuckoo Hall Academy threatened with funding termination

An academy criticised by Ofsted for its “stage, not age” curriculum model has been warned it could face being…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Check ‘consistency’ when considering reviews of coursework marking, schools told

Schools that receive requests to review coursework marks will have to judge whether their teachers are marking all pupils’s…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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‘Focus on sharing resources’, academy trusts told

Multi-academy trusts should be entrepreneurial and willing to take calculated risks to remain sustainable “in an age of austerity”,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE rejects 7,000 requests by schools to wipe pupils’ GCSE scores

The government has refused nearly 7,000 requests from schools for their pupils’ GCSE scores to be wiped from league…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE abandons Easter holiday hunger pilot after summer trial

The government will spend another £9 million testing solutions to holiday hunger across England, but has abandoned plans to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker