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TAs forced to take on teaching as staff cuts bite, says NEU

Staff cuts are forcing teaching assistants, school librarians and lab technicians to step up and teach pupils, according to…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Police organisation teams up with NAHT to beat recruitment fraud

The NAHT union is teaming up with a Metropolitan Police website to tackle recruitment fraud. Schools will be told…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Special-school closure will leave pupils with 45-mile commute

Staff and pupils from a special school in Cambridgeshire will have to travel 45 miles to a new location…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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71% of UTCs rated less than Ofsted ‘good’ in the last year

More than two thirds of the university technical colleges visited by Ofsted in the last year are ‘requires improvement’…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Damian Hinds’ ASCL 2018 conference speech: The full text

Damian Hinds, the education secretary, delivered his first major speech to the teaching profession at ASCL’s annual conference in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted chief ‘not ruling out’ judging schools on teacher workload

The chief inspector of schools is “loath” to commit Ofsted to judge schools on how they manage teacher workload,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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School funding is ‘tight’, admits Damian Hinds

The new education secretary has admitted that school funding is “tight” and said it is “vital” for the education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Where are new Catholic schools most likely to open?

New Catholic schools are most likely to open in London and the east of England if the cap on…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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NAHT launches commission to investigate school accountability

The way schools are held to account will be investigated by a new independent commission that seeks to find…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Teachers for pupils in care must have ‘trauma’ training

Schools must appoint and train a member of staff to spot the mental health needs of pupils who have…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Hinds to ‘clarify’ roles of RSCs and Ofsted to ease schools’ confusion

The government will attempt to “clarify” the roles of its schools commissioners, funding agency and Ofsted in order to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds: ‘We must strip away workload that doesn’t add value’

The government will help schools to “strip away” workload that “doesn’t add value” and threatens the retention of teachers,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker