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Give schools 12-month warning on policy changes, and 5 other education committee ideas to solve recruitment crisis

The education select committee has published its teacher retention and recruitment inquiry today. The report gives a number of…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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MPs call for national CPD ‘annual entitlement’ to boost teacher retention rates

The government should roll out an annual entitlement of continual professional development (CPD) for all teachers to boost retention rates,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Government reviews pupil nationality check guidance after schools’ passport demands

The government has beefed up official guidance for the controversial pupil nationality data collection duty after schools wrongly demanded…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Proposals for pioneering ‘low cost’ private school in England revealed

The architects behind proposals for a new ‘no frills’ private school that will charge parents just £52-a-week want to…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Emerging teacher pay gap threatens to ‘worsen recruitment crisis’

Pay increases for teachers in England have fallen behind the majority of other professions over the last six years,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Vicky Beer to stay on as RSC after departure U-turn

Vicky Beer, regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire, has made a dramatic U-turn on her decision to…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Pupils able to request coursework results from 2018

Pupils will be able to request the results of their GCSE and A-level coursework from next year, Ofqual has…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Greening promises QTS won’t be scrapped, and 7 key findings from her College of Teaching conference speech

Justine Greening has promised qualified teacher status will not be scrapped amid concerns the entry-bar into teaching is being…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government considers council MAT for vulnerable Kent primaries

The government is in talks with a council over plans to create a ‘spin-off’ multi academy trust to run the region’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Make sex education compulsory to stop spread of STIs, say councils

Councils across England say compulsory sex education should be extended to academies in order to reduce the spread of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to £35m new site

A struggling Bournemouth free school is still without a sponsor less than two months ahead of its move to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools

The MP who chairs Parliament’s influential education committee says the government has “yet to prove the case” for new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker