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Pupil data corrupted after bug hits Capita SIMS

A bug affecting school information management systems may have corrupted pupil data at thousands of schools around the country….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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RE should be renamed Religion, Beliefs and Values, says new Clarke/Woodhead report

Religious education should be renamed Religion, Beliefs and Values and parents must not be allowed to remove pupils from…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Charity watchdog to investigate independent Darul Uloom London school after firearms incident

The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into a leading Islamic school after police arrested two members of staff…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE received six applications for social mobility tsar job by original deadline

Just six people applied to become the government’s new social mobility tsar by the original deadline, prompting ministers to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Embattled Bright Tribe academy trust to close

Bright Tribe, the academy chain at the centre of a row over the running of schools in the north…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Former Montessori charity boss jailed for stealing £180,000

The former head of the UK’s largest Montessori network defrauded the charity of more than £180,000 over the course…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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National Education Union staff to strike on July 19

Up to 200 members of staff at the National Education Union will go on strike this Thursday. The GMB…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Confirmed: Compulsory relationships and sex education delayed until 2020

Compulsory relationships and sex education will not be extended to all schools until 2020, it has been confirmed. The…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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UK triumphs in the IB – even in an alternative provision academy

UK pupils outdid the global average score in the International Baccalaureate this year, with one academy trust also successfully…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Ofsted: Schools are ‘responsible’ for challenging health and care aspects of EHCPs

School leaders have a responsibility to check on the quality of health and care services prescribed to their pupils…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Is one exam board per T-level the ‘testing ground’ for A-levels?

The new T-levels will be delivered by just one exam board to “protect the standard” of the qualification. But…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Now Teach trainees get ready to celebrate QTS success

Three in four of the older career-changers who joined the Now Teach programmme, co-founded last September by Financial Times…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson