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Regulate teacher recruitment agencies, ASCL urges government

The school leaders’ union ASCL is calling for government regulation of teacher recruitment agencies after nearly three quarters of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Central Devon Academy and North Devon Academy threatened with re-brokerage to new sponsor

The Department for Education has threatened to rebroker Central Devon Academy and North Devon Academy, two alternative provision schools…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Cambridge Assessment Group appoints Saul Nassé as replacement CEO

A new chief executive has been found for the Cambridge Assessment Group after the previous choice backed out less…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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ASCL: Funding pressures force grammar schools to consider expansion

Funding pressures are forcing grammar school headteachers to consider increasing their pupil numbers to reach “economies of scale”, the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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WCAT school left without sponsor over £1 million-a-year PFI contract

A private finance initiative contract costing more than £1 million a year has stopped one of the last schools…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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United Learning boss rules out taking costly PFI schools ‘ever again’

One of the largest academy chains in England has refused to take on any new schools with costly PFI…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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ASCL calls for education ethics committee to guide government decision making

The government needs a committee on the ethical implications of changes to education policy, the ASCL’s ethical leadership commission…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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CBI attacks government education reforms and ‘fixation’ on exams

The president of Britain’s largest business lobbying organisation will today attack the government’s “parade” of education reforms and its…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Policy Exchange asks MATs to provide curriculum resources

Inadequate teaching materials are holding pupils in England back and increasing teachers’ workload, a right-leaning think tank with close…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Headteachers demand new laws to keep children safe online

Legislation to protect children on social media is back on the agenda after a survey found that nearly every…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Free school threatens legal action over closure plan

A strapped-for-cash free school has threatened to take the government to court over its decision to close it just…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Labour MPs launch school accountability inquiry

Labour MPs will hold an inquiry into school improvement and accountability in an attempt to “flesh out” the party’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker