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Former General Teaching Council CEO to head new Teaching Regulation Agency

Alan Meyrick, a former chief executive of the General Teaching Council, has been appointed as the new boss of…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Private school inspectors are rubber-stamping failing leaders

Private school inspectors are passing certain school leaders even if in their own reports note they are failing, Ofsted…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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International Women’s Day: NEU demands action on teaching gender pay gap

The country’s largest education union has demanded action to make teaching a “genuinely equal” profession for women. To mark…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Rate schools on how they meet pupils’ mental health needs, care commission tells Ofsted

Ofsted should inspect how effectively schools respond to the mental health needs of their pupils, the Care Quality Commission has…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Amanda Spielman at education committee: 5 things we learned

The chief inspector of schools faced questions from MPs this morning. Amanda Spielman appeared at a hearing of the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted’s illegal schools taskforce to get another £1m

Ofsted is to receive a further £1 million for its “illegal schools taskforce”, as it comes under increasing pressure…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Ombudsman: Transfers of SEND pupils to EHCPs delayed by up to 90 weeks

Pupils with special educational needs are waiting up to 90 weeks, or almost two years, to be transferred from…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Progress 8 ‘is forcing schools to ask for more PRU places’

Schools are asking for more places in pupil referral units for excluded pupils as a result of new accountability…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Faith leaders and politicians write to Damian Hinds about faith cap

Faith leaders, politicians and education experts have signed a joint letter asking the education secretary to reconsider his plans…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Ofsted ‘disappointed’ by Liberal Democrat pledge to scrap it

The Liberal Democrats’ promise to get rid of Ofsted is “disappointing”, but the party’s criticism has been taken on…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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£40k bursaries for veterans to replace doomed £10m Troops to Teachers scheme

Armed forces veterans will receive bursaries of £40,000 to attend university in the hope they will go on to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Cumbria Education Trust lined up as new sponsor for Whitehaven Academy

The Cumbria Education Trust has been named as the government’s preferred sponsor for the struggling Whitehaven Academy. However, Cumbria’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker