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Damian Hinds faces first education committee grilling

The education secretary will take questions from MPs when he appears in front of the parliamentary education committee next…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teach First opens leadership programme for struggling schools

Struggling schools can now apply for a leadership development programme run by Teach First, with funding available for specialist…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE to invite bids for wave of AP and special free schools

The government will invite bids for a special wave of free schools for excluded pupils and those with special…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Review launched into educational outcomes of children in need

A review by the Department for Education will examine and seek to improve the educational outcomes of children considered…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Major Catholic academisation plans held up by doubters

Plans by the Diocese of Westminster to convert over 200 schools into academies have hit a bump in the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Do the maths: Cost of new times-tables tests to top £5.2m

New times-tables tests for nine-year-olds will cost the Department for Education more than £5 million to implement, Schools Week…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Exclusions review and £4m ‘alternative provision fund’ unveiled

There will be a new £4 million alternative provision fund to support excluded pupils to return to mainstream schools….

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Deficit gap widens between LA schools and academies

Local authority-maintained schools are increasingly slipping into deficit as funding pressures continue to bite, new research has found. A…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted WILL now use predecessor school grades in academy statistics

Ofsted has decided to factor the grades of academies’ predecessor schools into its official data, it has confirmed. The…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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School apprenticeship training company ‘not fit for purpose’ says Ofsted

A company that runs apprenticeship training for schools has been branded “not fit for purpose” by Ofsted after inspectors…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exam malpractice allegations sealed fate of doomed studio school

Accusations of exam malpractice sealed the fate of a doomed studio school, according to “shocking” minutes from its board…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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New data shows 12.5% rise in full secondary schools

The proportion of secondary schools that are full or over capacity has risen for the first time in at…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker