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MPs’ stern warning over ‘incoherent’ system and costly, ‘risky’ academisation

A powerful committee of MPs has warned that the government failed to properly scrutinise the early stages of the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds gives £5m to 20 ‘careers hubs’ to boost advice and job ‘encounters’

Schools in 20 areas of England will have access to funding to train staff to give better careers advice…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Bright Tribe abandons merger plans as founder Dwan walks away

The under-fire Bright Tribe Trust has called off plans to merge with its sister organisation following a large-scale restructuring…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Key stage 2 SATs results 2018: 64% achieve ‘expected standard’

Sixty-four per cent of pupils achieved the government’s “expected standard” in reading, writing and maths in this year’s key…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Scaled scores for 2018 key stage 2 SATs announced

The Department for Education has today released the marks pupils needed for the 2018 key stage 2 tests to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Don’t let faith groups influence what schools teach, warns Ofsted chief

Schools must uphold fundamental British values and not permit particular faith groups to influence what they do and do…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Union survey finds vast majority of teachers think SATs harm pupils’ health

Nine in ten teachers believe SATs are detrimental to pupils’ well-being and mental health. Of 1,200 primary school teachers…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Careers and Enterprise Company will publish secretive board minutes

Records of meetings held by the board of the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) will finally be published online…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Use creative arts to ‘challenge perceptions of what boys do and are like’

Schools need to give boys the skills to “be the best dads they can be”, delegates heard at a…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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David Ross Education Trust cleared of wrongdoing, but is ‘vulnerable’ financially, ESFA rules

One of England’s largest academy trusts has been cleared of wrongdoing following complaints about its governance, but school funding…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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More academy trusts in the spotlight over executive pay

The government has issued another warning to academy trusts over executive pay, this time asking those that paid employees…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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‘Inadequate’ academy faces termination of funding over standards

An academy in Central Bedfordshire faces having its funding withdrawn and being rebrokered to a new sponsor after it…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson