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Free school that left pupil behind on school trip to close

A specialist science and technology free school in Newcastle will close this summer, three months after one of its…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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£270k-a-year head quits academy trust role

A headteacher in Warwickshire who has been criticised over her £270,000 salary has left her role “with immediate effect”….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE to review impact of Baker Clause careers duty

The impact of a new law which forces schools to allow training organisations the chance to speak to pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspectors praise ‘considerable improvements’ at turnaround school, but slam sponsor for lack of support

Leaders of a school run by the doomed Education Fellowship Trust have been praised for “considerable improvements” which raised…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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90% of heads support compulsory PSHE lessons

There is “overwhelming” support in schools for the introduction of compulsory PSHE lessons, according to a new report from…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Dunraven Educational Trust will adopt troubled Durand Academy

A small London academy trust has been lined up to run Durand Academy, after the Harris Federation backed out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Teacher vacancy website up-and-running in north east and Cambridgeshire

The government has finally launched a free teacher vacancy website in two regions of the country, promising it will…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Academy trusts invited to set up ‘secure schools’ for pupils in custody

Academy trusts are being invited to set up “secure schools” for pupils languishing in youth custody, under new plans…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Thousands of looked-after children moved 20 miles or more mid-year

Thousands of looked-after children are being moved mid-year to schools more than 20 miles away from their previous school,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Most free schools open in areas of need, and 4 other things we learned

The majority of free schools opened in areas of need, research has found, but they are usually neither innovative…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Gibb ‘open to’ a British sign language GCSE

The Department for Education is now “open to considering” a British sign language GCSE after previously warning that it would…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Private alternative providers get worse Ofsteds than council provision, and 4 other findings

The woeful state of private alternative providers can be revealed for the first time, as a new analysis reveals…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg