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Office for Students wades into unconditional university offers storm

One of the first orders of business at the new Office for Students will be to investigate the sharp…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Funding rules prevent MATs from building affordable homes for teachers

School leaders want to offer teachers accommodation to help solve the recruitment crisis, but, as ever, finding the money…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE slashes support for future talent fund by £5m

The government will only pay £18 million towards its new “future talent fund”, which is aimed at helping the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New campaign would make school libraries a statutory requirement

Library associations across the country are joining together in a campaign to make school libraries statutory and Ofsted-inspected. The…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Heads launch legal tool to beat supply agency fees

Schools are being encouraged to team up and use a special legal mechanism to avoid “exorbitant” supply teacher agency…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Safeguarding, fire safety and segregation: DfE releases 27 new private school warning notices

The government has published the latest batch of warning notices issued to underperforming private schools. Among other transgressions, it…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson


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George Osborne to be questioned about pupil disadvantage in the north

Former chancellor George Osborne will be questioned by the parliamentary education committee about the state of education and support…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Be ‘cautious’ about mentor programmes, schools told

Schools should be “cautious” about introducing mentoring programmes for their vulnerable pupils because they can do more harm than…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Could Ofsted be about to wipe the grading slate clean?

Ofsted is buzzing with rumours that the grading system for schools is about be scrapped and replaced with pass-or-fail…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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The Bright Tribe Files: Parents and staff blamed by trust over Whitehaven fiasco

The trust blamed for tumbledown buildings and terrible results at Whitehaven Academy has tried to blame the school’s problems…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Private school fees rise again, and 5 more findings from the ISC Census

Private school fees have increased again, new data published by the Independent Schools Council reveals. The ISC, a membership…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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National schools commissioner Sir David Carter to step down

The national schools commissioner will retire from the civil service at the end of this academic year, he has…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross