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Revealed: The nine organisations that will share £4m ‘alternative provision fund’ cash

Nine pupil referral units, councils and charities will split £4 million from the government’s new “alternative provision fund”, the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Investigation: Wrongly disqualified school staff waited months to return to work

Blameless school staff were left in limbo and fearing for their jobs for months as a result of unclear…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: The nine schools chosen to split £2m and become ‘language hubs’

Nine schools will split £2 million in government funding to become “modern foreign language hubs”, after a scheme to boost…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Doomed school improvement fund ignored ‘big black hole’ in the north of England

England’s two northernmost counties were overlooked for government school improvement cash because ministers are too focused on the region’s…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Heads concerned after ‘lifeline’ school improvement funding cut

A “lifeline” government scheme that issued school improvement grants has closed, with £85 million from its coffers left unspent….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE will ‘consider’ introducing British sign language GCSE during this parliament

Campaigners are celebrating a government U-turn after the Department for Education said it will “consider” introducing a British sign…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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28 projects to split £10.1 million in strategic school improvement fund round 3

More than £10 million in government school improvement funding will be handed to 28 academy trusts, councils and teaching…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Disadvantaged pupils get just 4.5% of grammar school places

CORRECTION, July 3, 2020: Comprehensive Future has informed us the figures provided for this piece are not accurate because…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of ‘inadequate’ academy in Bristol

An all-through academy in Bristol faces having its funding stopped and being rebrokered to a new sponsor after inspectors…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Campaigners plot judicial review over closure of abandoned church school

Staff and parents at a Church school rejected by the local diocese will seek a judicial review of a…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Fire brigade renews calls for mandatory sprinklers as London school fires increase by a third

The number of fires in London schools has increased by a third in just one year, the London Fire…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Teaching and leadership union membership drops to lowest level since 2010

Trade union membership among school teachers and leaders in England has dropped to its lowest level in seven years….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker