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SPONSORED: STA Travel Education is giving one school £10,000 to spend on a trip

STA Travel Education has broken traditions, and to help make school trips more accessible, it is offering one lucky…

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn
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The government ‘is failing a generation’ with school mental health reforms

Planned reforms to children and young people’s mental health services “lack any ambition” and will put additional pressure on…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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East London academy conversion plans scrapped after 19-day teacher strike

Plans to convert a school in east London into an academy have been abandoned after its teachers went on…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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MPs demand action to improve education in the north

An influential group of MPs has written to the education secretary to demand immediate improvement to education in the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE ‘looking at’ resilience measure for trainee teachers

A Bradford teacher-training organisation has reduced drop-out rates by screening applicants for their resilience. The wastage rate of teacher…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Church of England prepares for closure of village schools

The Church of England may have to close some of its small rural schools as problems with funding, teacher…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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One year on: The uneven success of the apprenticeship levy

Schools and academy trusts are not making the most of the millions of pounds they pay into the apprenticeship…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Angela Rayner: Government ‘wouldn’t survive their own Ofsted inspection’

The government has ignored headteachers and failed to “pay attention” to the fallout from its own policies, Angela Rayner…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School leaders are being forced out, warns Angela Rayner

School leaders are being forced out of the profession by rising workloads, falling pay and a lack of support,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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On notice: 27 private schools warned by DfE

The government has made public 27 warning notices issued to private schools that failed to meet its independent school…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Teach First increases trainee numbers more in south than north

Teach First has made progress placing trainees in the north of England but is still struggling in some areas,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Studio schools to work more closely with MATs

The controversial studio schools programme has announced a dramatic shift in focus after the tally of those closed or…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross