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Reception staff ‘increasingly unpaid and underqualified’, warns EPI

Schools are increasingly taking on unpaid and underqualified reception staff, new research has found. Analysis by the Education Policy…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Labour loses bid to give free school meals to all universal credit claimants

Labour has lost its bid to extend eligibility for free school meals to pupils from all households claiming universal…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spring statement: Schools will ‘subsidise businesses’ under apprenticeship levy

Small schools will end up subsidising businesses to the tune of £80 million under plans announced by the chancellor…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spring statement: Unions demand more SEND funding

Two leading education unions have told the chancellor to allocate more money for SEND pupils in his spring statement…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Small academy trust begins review into head’s £270k salary

An academy trust in Warwickshire is reviewing its pay policies after it emerged it paid one headteacher more than…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Sponsors found for eight of the 12 Education Fellowship Trust schools

New sponsors have been found for eight schools run by the doomed Education Fellowship Trust, the government has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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ASCL Conference: Eight things we learned about funding, workload and accountability

Hundreds of headteachers gathered in Birmingham last week for the annual conference of the Association of School and College…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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TAs forced to take on teaching as staff cuts bite, says NEU

Staff cuts are forcing teaching assistants, school librarians and lab technicians to step up and teach pupils, according to…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Police organisation teams up with NAHT to beat recruitment fraud

The NAHT union is teaming up with a Metropolitan Police website to tackle recruitment fraud. Schools will be told…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Special-school closure will leave pupils with 45-mile commute

Staff and pupils from a special school in Cambridgeshire will have to travel 45 miles to a new location…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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71% of UTCs rated less than Ofsted ‘good’ in the last year

More than two thirds of the university technical colleges visited by Ofsted in the last year are ‘requires improvement’…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Damian Hinds’ ASCL 2018 conference speech: The full text

Damian Hinds, the education secretary, delivered his first major speech to the teaching profession at ASCL’s annual conference in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker