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DfE dishes out £10m to recruit 600 more career changers

Three organisations will receive around £10 million to bring more career changers and PhD graduates into teaching, the government…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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7 things we learned from the PAC on academy accounts

The public accounts committee has held its second session into academy finances, and grilled some of the highest ranking…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Only 36% of teachers think their pay helps build a career, new research finds

Only about a third of teachers think their current pay range is helping them build a career, new research…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Hinds tells review body 2019-20 teacher pay rises must be ‘affordable’

Education secretary Damian Hinds has urged the independent teacher pay body to give “careful consideration” about whether any pay…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofqual won’t relax grade boundaries for science and MFL A-levels

Ofqual has concluded there is no “compelling case” to relax grade boundaries in sciences and modern foreign languages A-levels,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New national schools commissioner pledges ‘transparency and consistency’

The country’s regional schools commissioners will become “more transparent and more consistent”, the new national schools commissioner has pledged. Dominic…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Trusts still worried over long-term ‘financial viability’ – despite getting extra cash to expand

Academy trusts handed a share of £31 million under government funding to expand were “overly ambitious” in some cases,…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Careers and Enterprise Company blasted over £200k conference spend

The Careers and Enterprise Company has been blasted for spending more than £200,000 on two conferences after MPs demanded…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ignoring teacher pay recommendations was a ‘difficult decision’, says DfE funding boss

The decision by the government to ignore the recommendations of the School Teachers Review Body this year was “difficult”,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Minister bets heads a bottle of champagne he can find savings in their schools

The academies minister Lord Agnew has said he will bet any headteacher “a bottle of champagne and a letter…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Summer-borns still struggle in year 6, and 3 other findings from primary schools test results analysis

New analysis of the test results of more than 1.5 million primary school pupils across England lays bare the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Don’t force pupils to accept unconditional offers ahead of other university places, school leaders urge

Pupils should not be “compelled” to accept unconditional offers for university places until after achieving their A-levels, a coalition of…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg