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Universities asked to open more post-16 maths free schools

Universities are being sought by the government to open specialist post-16 free schools to encourage more pupils to study…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Newham expands special needs provision

Five new or expanded centres attached to mainstream schools will be created for pupils with special educational needs in…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Mental health charities call for more youth specialists to be trained

Schools struggle to get pupils seen by qualified mental health professionals because training for counsellors focuses too much on…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ombudsman to look into DfE’s handling of information requests about school closure

The parliamentary ombudsman is to investigate the government’s handling of a school closure in Coventry. Clare McArthur, a campaigner…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Marine Academy Plymouth faces moving to new trust

A Plymouth-based academy specialising in marine science and engineering has been warned that it may have its funding terminated…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Financial warning notice for UTC which owed government £500k

A university technical college which owed the government over half a million pounds after it overestimated its pupil numbers…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Norwich’s Engage Multi-Academy Trust hit with financial notice to improve

A Norwich-based multi-academy trust has been issued with a financial notice to improve by the Education and Skills Funding…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Revealed: The 2018 Teach First Innovation Award winners

The annual Teach First Innovation Awards exist to give a leg up to start-ups that want to tackle inequality…

Samantha Lauren King
Samantha Lauren King
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Toby Young resigns from New Schools Network

Toby Young has resigned from the New Schools Network due to ongoing “media attention” about his continued role as…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Maths and science teachers ‘need 5% more pay’ to end shortage

Higher salaries for maths and science teachers would have prevented the recruitment crisis in those subjects, according to new…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Academy funding discrepancy ‘on bigger scale than expected’

More than 500 academies got millions of pounds of extra cash because the government funded them on a model…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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University of Bolton vice-chancellor resigns from troubled Bright Tribe academy trust

A director at the troubled Bright Tribe Trust has resigned days after his UTC was criticised by the government…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross