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QTS rule change means 9,000 prospective teachers can retake skills test

At least 9,000 prospective teachers barred from training after failing a skills test three times will be able to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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QTS skills test: Lock-out period and retake charges scrapped

The government is to scrap the controversial lock-out period that currently prevents would-be teachers from retaking the QTS skills…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teachers need proper sex education training, warn experts

External speakers should not be used as substitutes for trained teachers under plans to make sex and relationships education…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Teacher workload crisis threatens examiner recruitment

Teacher workload and reforms to GCSEs and A-levels are affecting examiner recruitment. Union officials, school leaders and examiners have…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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REVEALED: The local authorities with the biggest staffing cuts

Secondary schools have lost more than 15,000 members of staff over the last three years, but teacher-to-pupil ratios have…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted allows newly-trained staff to lead short inspections

Ofsted will allow 25 junior inspectors who signed up to a fast-track training programme with a cash incentive to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Slight fall in school absence fines in wake of Platt court case

Parents fined for their children’s unauthorised absence fell a little last year, but the figures did not change as…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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United Learning and Ark in north-London turf war

Two of the country’s leading academy trusts have clashed over plans for an “unneeded” free school in north London….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Floreat Brentford Primary free school to close

The sponsor of Floreat Brentford Primary School, a free school in west London, has announced plans to close the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Yeovil’s St Michael’s Academy hit with financial notice to improve

A junior school in Somerset has been hit with a financial notice to improve from the government after it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Campaigner wants school absence contact procedures changed

Schools should be forced to contact multiple family members in the event of unexpected pupil absences, according to a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Sweet-talking the government worth six figures to struggling trusts

Some academy trusts are getting extra money simply because of their “powers of persuasion” while others struggle with their…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg