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EPI report: Best and worst-performing academy trusts and LAs revealed

Academy trusts are “disproportionately represented” among the lowest-performing primary schools groups, according to new research by the Education Policy…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Two more schools to offer T-levels from 2020

The Department for Education has revealed the names of two more schools that will deliver its new technical qualifications….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Hinds challenged over ‘dangerously inadequate’ SEND funding

A coalition of trade unions and 39 local authorities have written to the education secretary to warn of “dangerously…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Council steps in to save 24-pupil special school

A local authority has prevented an academy for high-needs pupils from closing, saving them from a 45-mile journey to…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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International schools to recruit more UK teachers

Tens of thousands more teachers will move into overseas jobs during the coming decade as international schools seek to…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Expand alternative provision to years 12 and 13, says education committee chair

High-quality alternative provision for vulnerable pupils in years 12 and 13 is too scarce and should be expanded, the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Academy trust bosses’ New Zealand trip questioned by the ESFA

A review of financial management and governance at the London-based Silver Birch Academy Trust has revealed serious failings, including…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Why every school needs to learn how to handle ‘conduct disorder’

Schools have ineffective behaviour management strategies because they want a “quick fix” to a common disorder but don’t understand…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Suffolk council to vote on swingeing cuts to rural school transport

Suffolk council is preparing controversial cuts to school transport that will “significantly impact” pupil numbers at schools around the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE spent more than £23m on failed studio schools

The government has spent more than £23 million on studio schools that have either closed or never opened but…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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First-choice secondary school offers fall again as ‘baby bulge’ moves

The proportion of pupils getting into their first-choice secondary school is still falling as the so-called “baby bulge” moves…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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‘No need to finish your A-levels,’ universities tell school pupils

School pupils are being told by universities that they don’t need to finish their A-levels, it has been claimed….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson