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Beware informal ‘learning plans’, SEND experts warn

Pupils with special educational needs are being issued with informal learning plans in place of official plans that come…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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MI5 intelligence on potential extremists WON’T be shared with teachers

MI5 has no plans to share sensitive intelligence information with teachers in a bid to combat terrorism despite reports…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE won’t offer free sanitary products to counter period poverty

The Department for Education will not follow the Scottish Government’s lead and provide free sanitary products for pupils in…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Alternative provision academy trusts keen to open secure schools

Academy chains that cater for excluded pupils are keen to open new secure schools for young offenders, but the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Hinds to tell professionals to ‘play your part as governors’

Professional workers will be asked to “play their part” to improve the education of children by signing up to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Chris Husbands and Mary Beard top Queen’s Birthday Honours list for education services

A leading academic and a renowned classicist are at the top the list of those recognised in the Queen’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Heath Family Trust issued with financial notice to improve

An academy trust with eight schools in the north-west has been told to improve its finances or lose its…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ex-children’s minister gets £550-a-day safeguarding review job

The former children’s minister and MP Edward Timpson will chair a new panel set up to examine child safeguarding…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Fifteen schools chosen as T-levels pioneers

Fifteen schools are among the first 52 providers chosen to deliver the government’s new technical qualifications. These new T-Levels…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Small PRU trust Schools Company stripped of all four schools

A multi-academy trust that presided over the deterioration of three pupil referral units and a secondary school has been…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ministers’ school visits show ‘ideological obsession’ with academies

The education secretary has visited more than twice as many academies and free schools than maintained ones – and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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National teaching job website shrouded with secrecy

The Department for Education has finally launched its free teacher vacancy website – but it somehow didn’t manage to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg