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Budget cuts push heads to double up as SENCOs

A headteacher is training as a SENCO in the evenings because her school can no longer afford to employ…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Investigation: Schools accused of fudging sport premium funding

The government has been urged to plug the holes in its sport premium cash scheme, with teachers claiming schools…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Tories disagree over restoring failing academies to councils

Regional schools commissioners should be allowed to rebroker academies back to councils if they can’t find another trust to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools pay private companies to teach speedy GCSE equivalents

A private firm is offering schools an £800-per-pupil deal where external staff are parachuted in to teach year 11s…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New data on young people’s mental health now not ready until November

Schools will have to wait until the end of November to see brand new government data on the mental…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Sir David Carter to train academy leaders in new Ambition School Leadership role

Sir David Carter will help train academy leaders in a new role after standing down as national schools commissioner….

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Stats watchdog launches investigations into ministers’ ‘disingenuous’ use of data

The statistics watchdog has launched two investigations into the government’s “disingenuous” use of education data, with ministers accused of…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
CPC, News

Damian Hinds: Full text of Conservative Conference 2018 speech

You know whenever I ask anyone to think back to their education, what really made a difference for them…

John Dickens
John Dickens
CPC, News

Ignore the ‘fibbers’ over London’s school successes, says Hinds

Anyone who says they know why London’s schools have improved over the past two decades is a “fibber”, the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
CPC, News

Hinds criticised for neglecting school funding in conference speech

School leaders have criticised Damian Hinds for neglecting school funding in his first Conservative party conference speech as education…

John Dickens
John Dickens
CPC, News

The 5 schools policies in Damian Hinds’s Conservative Party conference speech

  Schools will get access to funding to improve behaviour and careers advice, the education secretary will announce today….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
CPC, News

Hinds pledges £10m to help teachers deal with bad behaviour

Damian Hinds will announce plans for the first substantial review of government behaviour guidance in over three years, along…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker