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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
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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