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Doubts over DfE’s new pupil data sharing policy

The capacity of the Office for National Statistics to meet a deluge of applications for national pupil database information…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Emphasis of Ofsted inspection to shift from classroom

The emphasis of Ofsted inspections will “shift up the management structure”, but lesson observations will continue because teachers want…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Chinese-backed firm buys United Learning private school

A United Learning private school has been sold to a Chinese-backed international schools’ group to become its flagship school…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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First off-campus teacher training route opens for undergraduates

The first teacher training route in which students get a degree without leaving the school site will encourage more…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Hinds: ‘I’m happy with system of multiple exam boards’

Damian Hinds has insisted he is “happy” with England’s system of using multiple exam boards for GCSEs and A-levels,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Unions back shadow minister’s food insecurity bill

School leaders have backed an attempt to force the government to collect data on food security, which will hand…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Academy trust chair embroiled in police probe resigns

The co-founder of Aspire Achieve Advance has resigned from his position as chair of an academy trust, after the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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NASUWT staff to strike over pensions cut

Staff working for the NASUWT teachers’ union will go on strike later this month following a dispute over pensions….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted accused of ‘conflicting signals’ over Barnsley school exclusions

Ofsted has been branded “contradictory” by school leaders after inspectors praised the strict behaviour policies of a school responsible…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Doomed Schools Company Trust paid £4k for ‘disturbing’ workshop from Oscar Pistorius’ aunt

A failed multi-academy trust which ran three pupil referral units (PRUs) into the ground spent £4,000 to bring the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Inclusive schools ‘clobbered’ after DfE tightens guidance on pupil removals

A school that took in two mentally ill pupils from a nearby school before their GCSEs has been held…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Minister’s £340k free schools flop revealed

A trust set up by a Conservative peer and former policy supremo of David Cameron was handed £340,000 for…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson