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90% of heads support compulsory PSHE lessons

There is “overwhelming” support in schools for the introduction of compulsory PSHE lessons, according to a new report from…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Dunraven Educational Trust will adopt troubled Durand Academy

A small London academy trust has been lined up to run Durand Academy, after the Harris Federation backed out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teacher vacancy website up-and-running in north east and Cambridgeshire

The government has finally launched a free teacher vacancy website in two regions of the country, promising it will…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Academy trusts invited to set up ‘secure schools’ for pupils in custody

Academy trusts are being invited to set up “secure schools” for pupils languishing in youth custody, under new plans…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Thousands of looked-after children moved 20 miles or more mid-year

Thousands of looked-after children are being moved mid-year to schools more than 20 miles away from their previous school,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Most free schools open in areas of need, and 4 other things we learned

The majority of free schools opened in areas of need, research has found, but they are usually neither innovative…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Gibb ‘open to’ a British sign language GCSE

The Department for Education is now “open to considering” a British sign language GCSE after previously warning that it would…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Private alternative providers get worse Ofsteds than council provision, and 4 other findings

The woeful state of private alternative providers can be revealed for the first time, as a new analysis reveals…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE announces £50m to expand special schools, but the money isn’t new

Ministers will hand councils £50 million to expand special schools and improve existing facilities for pupils with special educational…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Highlights from Northern Rocks 2018

The last ever Northern Rocks conference was held in Leeds last weekend. Schools Week was there to take in…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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LocatEd expands remit to include ‘site optimisation’

A company set up by the government to find and buy sites for the free schools programme will now…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted attempts parental charm offensive

Ofsted wants to make its inspection reports more accessible to parents because they are its “most important education stakeholders”,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson