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Confirmed: Compulsory relationships and sex education delayed until 2020

Compulsory relationships and sex education will not be extended to all schools until 2020, it has been confirmed. The…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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UK triumphs in the IB – even in an alternative provision academy

UK pupils outdid the global average score in the International Baccalaureate this year, with one academy trust also successfully…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Ofsted: Schools are ‘responsible’ for challenging health and care aspects of EHCPs

School leaders have a responsibility to check on the quality of health and care services prescribed to their pupils…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Is one exam board per T-level the ‘testing ground’ for A-levels?

The new T-levels will be delivered by just one exam board to “protect the standard” of the qualification. But…

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Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Now Teach trainees get ready to celebrate QTS success

Three in four of the older career-changers who joined the Now Teach programmme, co-founded last September by Financial Times…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Teach Firsters return to the classroom ten years on

Teachers who trained with education charity Teach First when it launched 15 years ago are returning to the profession,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson


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Educating Greater Manchester head Drew Povey Suspended

Drew Povey, the headteacher featured in the hit TV series Educating Greater Manchester, has been suspended, according to local…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual: Don’t enter grade four pupils for higher tier GCSE papers

Pupils aiming for a grade four at GCSE – a ‘standard’ pass or the equivalent of a C grade…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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‘Show more respect for religious schools’, Jewish faith leaders tell Ofsted

Jewish faith leaders have urged the schools inspectorate to show more “respect” for faith schools. Members of the Orthodox…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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New sponsor and ‘substantial capital programme’ confirmed for struggling Whitehaven Academy

The Cumbria Education Trust (CET) has been given leave to take on the troubled Whitehaven Academy in Cumbria, more…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools Company: DfE denies claims it had ‘positive’ relationship with troubled trust

The Department for Education has flatly denied that it maintained a “positive” relationship with the imploding Schools Company Trust…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools Company: Board minutes reveal extent of failure at doomed academy trust

Financial incompetency, appalling school buildings and close relationships with government have been revealed in the minutes of trustee meetings…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross