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DfE publishes delayed ‘workload reduction toolkit’

The Department for Education has finally published its “workload reduction toolkit”, the day after most schools broke up for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EEF: Use chalk slates or miniboards to gain two months’ progress

Simple ways of checking that pupils understand a topic during a lesson, such as showing their answers on chalk…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted: Schools must inform governors about inspections

Some schools are failing to inform all governors or trustees about an imminent Ofsted inspection, the inspectorate has warned,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Four ‘inadequate’ schools warned they face closure

Closure warning notices for four ‘inadequate’ schools have been published, with ineffective safeguarding, “dysfunctional” leadership and poor teaching among…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Relationships, sex and health education consultation opens

Schools have finally been told what they will have to teach in new relationships and sex education lessons, months…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Capita admitted SIMS bug on day it was handed £109m primary testing contract

Outsourcing firm Capita has refused to say when it first became aware of a computer bug that risks corrupting…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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UTC becomes first school with cameras in every classroom

A university technical college in Birmingham has become the first school in the country to install always-on, 360-degree cameras…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Full national funding formula roll-out delayed until 2021

The government’s new national funding formula will not be rolled out fully until 2021 after ministers delayed its implementation…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The national reference test cost more than £2m, and six other things we learned from Ofqual’s annual report

The exams regulator Ofqual has published its annual report and accounts for 2017-18. Schools Week rounded up some of the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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9 things we learned from ESFA’s first annual report and accounts

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has published its first annual report and accounts, revealing millions given away in…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE spent £115m on doomed free schools, UTCs and studio schools

The Department for Education spent more than £115 million on free school projects that went on to fail, new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Relationships and sex education: What should schools do?

Draft statutory guidance on the new relationships and sex education curriculum has finally been published. The 38-page document sets…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker