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DfE won’t say how many new breakfast clubs it has created

The government will not confirm how many new school breakfast clubs have been set up under a £26 million…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Progress scores plummet as trusts ditch ECDL

Progress scores in a trust founded by the academies minister plummeted after a fast-track qualification was removed from government…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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WCAT broke funding rules a year before its collapse, DfE review finds

The doomed Wakefield City Academy Trust broke government funding rules 16 times in 2016, according to a review of…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of four academies

Four schools in the east midlands have been warned they face losing their funding and being rebrokered to new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds aide quits over Brexit deal

Anne-Marie Trevelyan, an aide to education secretary Damian Hinds and his fellow education ministers, has resigned over the government’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Council chiefs report 27% rise in home educated pupils

The number of home educated pupils rose by 27 per cent this year, with many more likely to be “hidden…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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DfE urged to launch independent review into Careers and Enterprise Company

The government has been urged to commission an independent review into whether the Careers and Enterprise Company is doing…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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AET to give up two more schools after minister demands change

The country’s largest academy trust is to give up two more academies – despite recently being given the green…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Private school pupils at risk of ‘county lines’ exploitation, warn agencies

Affluent children attending private schools are being groomed into selling drugs because they are less likely to be suspected…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Pupils will get 6 seconds to complete times tables test questions

The Department for Education has set out the rules for its new times tables test for eight and nine-year-olds…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE finally takes action against failing private school

The government is finally taking action against a private school that has failed to meet independent school standards on…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Exams ‘useless’ for computer science, say experts

Computing experts have questioned the future of the subject in schools after Ofqual launched a consultation on plans to…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson