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OGAT and isolation rooms: what the data shows

Opponents of isolation rooms claim they disproportionately punish the poorest and most vulnerable pupils. OGAT, one of the trusts…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Heads enticed with conference tickets to attend ‘hosted meetings’

A major new education conference is offering free tickets and expenses of up to £750 in return for headteachers…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE plans new funding ‘centre of excellence’ team

The government is preparing to launch a funding “centre of excellence” that will be led by its first overall…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Four in five heads contribute to their schools’ finances

Four in five headteachers contribute to their schools’ finances from their own pockets, and the amount they are contributing…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Hinds to face education committee grilling over academy accountability and exclusions

Damian Hinds has been summoned to appear in front of MPs to answer questions about academy trust accountability, exclusions…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ministers turn to musicians to design new ‘model curriculum’

A new model music curriculum for schools will be drawn up by an independent panel of experts, the government…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Tory peer’s academy trust seeks unpaid workers

An academy trust founded by a Conservative peer is advertising for unpaid volunteers to fill key roles, as plans…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE to test and ‘quality-mark’ education apps

The Department for Education plans to assess and “quality-mark” smartphone and tablet education apps for younger pupils. Officials will…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School budgets raided of £22m to replace scrapped ESG funding

School budgets have been raided to the tune of tens of millions of pounds by cash-strapped councils scrambling to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The Seldon List: OECD chief and schools minister top trad-dominated education influencers list

Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s education chief, Nick Gibb, the schools minister, and Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, have…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Four-fifths of LAs could wipe out school deficits by clawing back ‘excess’ surplus, EPI study finds

The Education Policy Institute has published a deeper dive into recently released spending data for local authority schools. The…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Update us annually on school mental health plan progress, MPs tell ministers

MPs want annual updates from the government on its plan to introduce new mental health support teams to work…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker