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Ofsted chief says it’s more helpful for pupils to learn European languages before Mandarin

Learning to speak a European language first is more helpful for pupils than beginning with Mandarin, the chief inspector…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Who were the winners of The Careers & Enterprise Company Annual Awards 2018?

This week the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) celebrated the work of schools, colleges, businesses, and careers professionals with…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Doomed Schools Company Trust ‘double-counted’ GCSEs

A failed multi-academy trust that runs schools for vulnerable excluded pupils reported inflated GCSE results after double-counting some qualifications,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Gibb: Grammar schools can’t use condition improvement fund to expand

Grammar schools will no longer be able to use a government funding pot meant for all schools to expand…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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School building programme won’t be complete on time after £50m underspend

A flagship government school building programme underspent by more than 64 per cent 2016-17 and will now not be…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Health Futures UTC rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted

Leaders and governors at an ‘inadequate’ university technical college were unaware of “significant” weaknesses for years, Ofsted has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Inadequate’ Ofsted report exposes bullying at doomed UTC

Bullying – some of it racial – is rife at a university technical college that announced plans to close…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupil premium: Best schools account for ‘every pound spent’

Schools get the best outcomes for the very poorest pupils when they account for “every pound” of pupil premium…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Liverpool to get new specialist maths school as university takes up £350k funding offer

A new specialist maths school will open in Liverpool in 2020, the government has announced. The University of Liverpool…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Legal challenge over exclusion of autistic pupil

The right of schools to exclude autistic pupils who exhibit bad or aggressive behaviour faces a legal challenge this…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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IoE: Post-2010 school reforms have created system of ‘winners and losers’

England’s schools are divided between “winners and losers”, with higher-status institutions benefiting from new opportunities and resources while others…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Ofsted gives schools no incentive to include SEND pupils, says architect of statementing

A prominent peer whose inquiry into special educational needs paved the way for the practice of statementing has accused…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg