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Eight top private schools dominate Oxbridge admissions

Eight top schools, including Eton, Westminster and St Paul’s School for boys, had the same number of pupils accepted…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Inadequate’ Steiner free school faces rebrokerage over pupil safety

A Steiner free school in Devon that failed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its pupils and “disproportionately”…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Number of year 13s re-taking English and maths GCSEs in November doubles

Tens of thousands of sixth form pupils were forced to wait an extra year before resitting their English and…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Coursework reforms prevent pupils from getting exams ‘special consideration’

Reforms to GCSEs and A-levels could be preventing pupils from being eligible to receive special consideration when they miss…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Three in ten LA-maintained secondaries now in deficit, DfE data shows

More than 30 per cent of local authority-maintained secondary schools are now in deficit, new data from the Department…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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League tables to score schools on how many pupils take up higher apprenticeships

The government will start including data on the number of pupils schools send on to higher-level apprenticeships in school…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Academy trusts are becoming more risk-averse, says former schools commissioner

Academy trusts have become more risk-averse as the government has increased its auditing of their work, the former national…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ICO warns schools after head fined for unlawfully obtaining pupils’ personal data

School leaders have been warned they will face action if they abuse their position of trust following the successful…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted to introduce new MAT ‘summary evaluations’ this month

A new inspection regime for multi-academy trusts will be introduced this month, Ofsted has revealed. In its annual report,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted’s annual report 2018: Watchdog ‘concerned’ over SEND exclusions, and 8 more findings

Ofsted has this morning published its annual report for 2018. The key topics include off-rolling, SEND provision, and ‘stuck’…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted annual report reveals plight of ‘stuck schools’

One in ten secondary schools in the north east, Yorkshire and the Humber and the east midlands have been “stuck”…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government must do more for ‘left behind’ children, says Ofsted chief

The head of Ofsted has warned that more needs to be done to support children who are “being left…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross