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Mind the gap: The best and worst gender-based pay at multi-academy trusts

In 2017, the government passed a law forcing every organisation with 250 or more employees to publish specific figures…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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One in three reception children aren’t ‘school ready’, warns Teach First

Nearly one in three children who start primary school in England at the age of five are not “school…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Weak schools will get longer breather between Ofsted inspections

Schools with “serious weaknesses” will get an additional year to turn around their fortunes under changes announced by Ofsted…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Troops to Teachers: Quarter of all trainees quit course without qualifying

One in four participants in the government’s doomed ‘Troops to Teachers’ course quit before earning their teaching qualification, Schools…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Government under pressure to reveal plans for ‘free’ teacher vacancy service

The government is under mounting pressure to reveal detailed plans for its new teacher vacancy website and explain how…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Most locked-out trainee teachers have failed their QTS skills test resits

Just six per cent of would-be trainee teachers locked out of the pre-qualifying test for their courses under old…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Men get promoted more quickly, and 4 other findings from new school leadership research

The proportion of women appointed to leadership roles in schools is rising, but men are still being promoted more…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Application process for strategic school improvement fund was ‘unfit for purpose’

The first application round for the £140 million strategic school improvement fund was neither fair nor transparent according to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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ATL: ‘Keep parents from selectively withdrawing pupils from RE’

ATL has voted to stop parents “selectively” withdrawing their children from religious education lessons, claiming the practice is increasingly…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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NFER to deliver reception baseline test

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has been chosen to deliver the controversial new baseline test for reception children,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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New lease of life for 11 WCAT schools

Eleven of the schools previously run by the collapsed Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) have officially transferred to new sponsors….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Academy trusts with multiple staff on £100k+ told to justify pay

The government has written to all multi-academy trusts that are paying a salary of £100,000 to £150,000 to multiple…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson