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Liverpool to get new specialist maths school as university takes up £350k funding offer

A new specialist maths school will open in Liverpool in 2020, the government has announced. The University of Liverpool…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Legal challenge over exclusion of autistic pupil

The right of schools to exclude autistic pupils who exhibit bad or aggressive behaviour faces a legal challenge this…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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IoE: Post-2010 school reforms have created system of ‘winners and losers’

England’s schools are divided between “winners and losers”, with higher-status institutions benefiting from new opportunities and resources while others…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Ofsted gives schools no incentive to include SEND pupils, says architect of statementing

A prominent peer whose inquiry into special educational needs paved the way for the practice of statementing has accused…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Spielman: Ofsted inspectors know Progress 8 ‘isn’t perfect’

Ofsted inspectors know that progress scores don’t “paint the whole picture” of school quality, Amanda Spielman has said today,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teachers are responsible for a tenth of serious LGBT bullying incidents in schools

The government has announced a series of measures to help LGBT pupils in schools, after new statistics revealed that…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Ofsted chief criticised over lack of visits to early-years settings

The chief inspector of schools has not visited a sufficiently “diverse” range of nursery provision, according to critics, after…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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‘Disqualification by association’ rules for schools scrapped

Schools will no longer have to follow controversial safeguarding rules which caused teachers to be unnecessarily suspended from work….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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OCR will be fined £175,000 for its Romeo and Juliet mix-up

Ofqual intends to fine exam board OCR £175,000 for a glaring error made in a GCSE paper in May…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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UTC@Harbourside is the ninth UTC to close

Another university technical college will close next year, taking the total to nine. UTC@Harbourside, based in Newhaven in East…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EPI: The DfE must ditch ‘flawed’ school performance statistic

Ministers must “ditch their favourite line” that there are now 1.9 million more children in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ schools than…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE silent on grammar schools consultation response omissions

The Department for Education is refusing to name the 16 campaign groups whose responses to the grammar school consultation…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker