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Failing private schools to get three months to improve or close

Private schools that fail to meet the government’s standards will be given three months to improve or they will…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools sought for ‘returner-teachers’ pilot

Up to 10 schools are being sought to take part in a trial of a scheme aimed at persuading…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual clamps down on teacher-examiner cheating

Exam boards will be expected to check teaching plans and materials, monitor social media and track “unusual” exam results…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Nine things schools need to know about the government’s integration green paper

A raft of measures for schools aimed at improving community integration have been announced by the government. The Ministry of…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Damian Hinds censured by stats watchdog over school funding claims

The education secretary made an “error” when he claimed in parliament that schools would get a real-terms increase in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Reception staff ‘increasingly unpaid and underqualified’, warns EPI

Schools are increasingly taking on unpaid and underqualified reception staff, new research has found. Analysis by the Education Policy…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Labour loses bid to give free school meals to all universal credit claimants

Labour has lost its bid to extend eligibility for free school meals to pupils from all households claiming universal…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spring statement: Schools will ‘subsidise businesses’ under apprenticeship levy

Small schools will end up subsidising businesses to the tune of £80 million under plans announced by the chancellor…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spring statement: Unions demand more SEND funding

Two leading education unions have told the chancellor to allocate more money for SEND pupils in his spring statement…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Small academy trust begins review into head’s £270k salary

An academy trust in Warwickshire is reviewing its pay policies after it emerged it paid one headteacher more than…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Sponsors found for eight of the 12 Education Fellowship Trust schools

New sponsors have been found for eight schools run by the doomed Education Fellowship Trust, the government has said….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ASCL Conference: Eight things we learned about funding, workload and accountability

Hundreds of headteachers gathered in Birmingham last week for the annual conference of the Association of School and College…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker