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Schools that work for everyone: 8 significant findings from the consultation responses

More than 500 days after the consultation closed, the government has finally published its response to the ‘Schools that…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE takes action to force schools to follow the ‘Baker Clause’

The Department for Education has begun to intervene in schools which fail in their legal duty to allow training…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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‘Strengthened’ QTS proposals will cost at least £336 million

Schools need at least £336 million more per year to pay for the government’s proposed changes to teacher induction,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Grammar schools asked to prioritise poorest pupils

The body representing most of the country’s grammar school headteachers will encourage its members to “prioritise” the poorest pupils…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Private schools will report annually on their work with state schools

The organisation representing some of the country’s most prestigious private schools will have to report every year on how…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Grammar school consultation: Respondents wanted selective schools to take on 100% low-income pupils

Respondents to a high-profile government consultation on grammar schools mostly wanted them take all their pupils from poorer households, it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Grammar school coffers drained by ‘test tourism’ as pushy parents use 11-plus as mock exam

Grammar schools are wasting thousands of pounds because pushy parents from other areas are using their entry exams as…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Catholics slam ‘broken promise’ as faith admissions cap retained

Plans to lift the 50-per-cent admissions cap on new faith schools have been abandoned, almost two years after they…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Careers and Enterprise Company will face questions from MPs

The parliamentary education committee will question the leaders of the government’s Careers Enterprise Company next week. Claudia Harris, the organisation’s chief…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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School ditches UTC name as it joins multi-academy trust

Another struggling university technical college has denied distancing itself from the UTC brand, despite ditching its name and joining…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofqual: New biology A-level has improved pupils’ practical skills

Pupils studying the reformed biology A-level have shown better practical skills than whose who took the subject before the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Thousands of children without EHCPs by government deadline

Almost 4,000 children with now-defunct statements of special educational needs were still waiting to transfer to the new education,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson