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Teach critical thought, says Hillsborough disaster academic

Teaching pupils to think critically about “truth” is as important as ever, according a top academic who investigated corrupted…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted hopes to move away from safeguarding ‘compliance’ checks

Ofsted wants its safeguarding procedures to have “impact”, rather than merely checking that schools are “compliant”, an inspector has…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted heaps praise on ‘much improved’ Diocese of Ely academy trust

A large academy trust has been praised by Ofsted for its “journey of systematic improvement” after a focused inspection…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Revealed: The two schools ‘double-bounced’ between sponsors

Crawshaw Academy and Wigan UTC are the only two schools to have been rebrokered twice since records began, the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Academy trusts will appear in January’s league tables

Next year, the public will be able to see for themselves how well multi-academy trusts are doing in the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Sponsors for WCAT schools have ‘variable’ school improvement record

The government needs to explain why it picked certain trusts as sponsors for the schools that belonged to the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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EEF seeks schools for ‘rapid-marking’ and handwriting trials

The Education Endowment Foundation is looking for around 500 schools throughout England to take part in four new trials…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Calls to boycott new baseline assessment trials – which won’t even start until 2019

Schools and parents are being encouraged to boycott trials of a new reception baseline assessment, two years before it…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Greening reminds teacher pay body to be ‘flexible’ on rises

Justine Greening has asked the School Teachers’ Review Body, which makes recommendations for teacher’s salaries, to consider a “more…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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A third of EAL pupils are fluent in English

A third of pupils with English as an additional language are fluent in it, according to new data from…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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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