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Who are the leaders building a SEND network of 10,000 schools?

SEND specialists across England have been tasked with creating a network of 10,000 schools over the next two years…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ambition School Leadership and Institute for Teaching to merge into new charity

Two organisations offering development opportunities for teachers and leaders are to merge into a single charity. Ambition School Leadership,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Scrapping EAL proficiency data collection is ‘retrograde step’

Ministers are under pressure to reinstate a shortlived rule that forced schools to collect data on the language proficiency…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Unfair’ disqualification by association rules leave hundreds in limbo

More than 1,700 teachers and childcare providers were left in limbo as a result of “disproportionate” rules that disqualified…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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One in five grammar schools apply for expansion cash

One-fifth of all grammar schools plan to apply for cash to expand, new analysis shows. Thirty-five of the 163…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofqual mulls grading change for language and science A-levels

Ofqual is considering a change to the grading of A levels in modern languages and the sciences, if it…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson


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Sixth forms ‘tighten entry criteria’ for A-levels after reforms

Schools are tightening the entry criteria for A-levels and discouraging some pupils from studying difficult subjects in response to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Directors of Children’s Services demand LAs be allowed to take over failing academies

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services has released a report asking the government to let local authorities take…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted chief says it’s more helpful for pupils to learn European languages before Mandarin

Learning to speak a European language first is more helpful for pupils than beginning with Mandarin, the chief inspector…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Who were the winners of The Careers & Enterprise Company Annual Awards 2018?

This week the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) celebrated the work of schools, colleges, businesses, and careers professionals with…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Doomed Schools Company Trust ‘double-counted’ GCSEs

A failed multi-academy trust that runs schools for vulnerable excluded pupils reported inflated GCSE results after double-counting some qualifications,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Gibb: Grammar schools can’t use condition improvement fund to expand

Grammar schools will no longer be able to use a government funding pot meant for all schools to expand…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg