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Schools can get £500 to offer undergraduate internships in maths and physics teaching

Schools will be offered grants to recruit undergraduates as paid interns in the hope of persuading more young people…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools fail to ‘obtain’ nationality data on quarter of pupils

Schools failed to obtain nationality data for a quarter of their pupils this year, indicating a significant resistance to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Campaigners launch judicial review proceedings to stop collection of pupil nationality data

Campaigners seeking to halt schools from collecting data on pupil nationality and country of birth will today request permission…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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New research: Unhappy teachers will take 10% pay cut to escape profession

Teachers are willing to take a 10-per-cent pay cut to escape the profession and allow themselves more free time,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE to pay £10m for checks on school leader qualifications

The government is looking for a company to check the quality of new national professional qualifications for teachers, and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Bright Tribe in discussions over future of northern schools

The Bright Tribe academy trust is in discussions with the government about walking away from all of its schools…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Manchester Creative Studio School faces closure

A studio school in Manchester plagued with financial and performance problems since it opened in 2014 faces closure after…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exam special consideration requests up 19%

Ofqual has reported a dramatic 19 per cent rise in the number of requests for special consideration in the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Barnardo’s: 40% of teachers can’t identify a young carer in class

Four in 10 teachers are not able to identify a young carer in their class, children’s charity Barnardo’s has…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Floreat and Avanti Trust seek to merge

An academy trust founded by a minister is considering a merger with another chain after it admitted that it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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National Citizen Service faces staffing challenge as programme for schools grows

Finding enough staff to care for and ensure the safeguarding of pupils on the National Citizen Service is a…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Carter and Agnew at education committee: 6 things we learned

The parliamentary education committee spent almost two hours grilling the national schools commissioner Sir David Carter and the academies…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker