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Don’t let parents opt kids out of sex education, warns leading campaigner Peter Tatchell

Parents who want their children to opt out from sex and relationships education (SRE) lessons should have to go…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Public accounts chair wants schools to publish clearer financial information online

Schools should have to publish more financial information about themselves on their websites to make it easier for parents…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The DfE is ‘unrealistic’ about school cuts and 6 other morsels from the PAC’s annual report

The chair of the powerful public accounts committee has published her annual report, including criticisms of the Department for…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted right to consider separate behaviour judgment, says Nicky Morgan

The former education secretary Nicky Morgan has backed a proposal to have Ofsted inspectors award schools a specific mark…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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New editor appointed at Schools Week

Schools Week is proud to announce the appointment of John Dickens, its former chief reporter, as its new editor. Dickens…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exposed: The Downing Street teacher reception where academies reigned supreme

A Downing Street reception for school teachers hosted by the prime minister last month was an “ideological love-in” at…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Derby Manufacturing UTC placed in special measures

Another university technical college has been rated ‘inadequate’, the eighth to receive Ofsted’s lowest grade. Derby Manufacturing UTC has…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools will NOT lose money next year, unions admit

Schools will not see a real-terms drop in per-pupil funding next year, a coalition of unions has admitted, after…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Troubled UCAT academy trust to close, shedding seven schools

The University of Chester Academies Trust (UCAT) will close and give up all seven of its schools after leaders…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Twenty-six more private school warning notices published

The government has published 26 more warning notices identifying failings at private schools around the country. The notices, which cover February…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE reiterates that gender segregation is ‘unlawful discrimination’

The government has published new guidance to remind mixed schools that segregating pupils by gender is “unlawful discrimination”, following…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Return to Teaching pilot was a flop, new data reveals

A government scheme to encourage former teachers to return to the classroom missed its targets and is “unlikely to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross