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Schools that engage with parents boost pupil progress, report reveals

Training school staff to help the parents of disadvantaged children to get more involved in their education helps learning…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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NAHT: Senior leader recruitment getting even worse

Schools are increasingly struggling to recruit senior leaders, with the proportion of heads failing to hire a new assistant…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE reprimanded by stats watchdog for sharing protected data with unauthorised staff

The Department for Education has received its second reprimand from the UK Statistics Authority in two months, after it…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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MP escorted out of failing Bright Tribe academy

An MP who is calling for a controversial academy trust to withdraw from a failing school has been physically…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Ofsted: Small private schools in ‘stark decline’ – but special schools buck the trend

Inspection outcomes for small private schools are in “stark” decline, Ofsted has warned, although private special schools are bucking…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Late entry to GCSEs continues falling – but not for OCR

Ofqual has this morning published figures on the number of late GCSE and AS/A-level entries for this summer’s exam…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Schools will be forced to promote technical education from January

A law that will force schools to let colleges, apprenticeship providers and University Technical Colleges talk to pupils about…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Council to refer WCAT to police over finance concerns

The leader of Wakefield Council is to refer the Wakefield City Academies Trust to the police over alleged financial…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Budget 2017: Greening will write to teacher pay body ‘shortly’

The education secretary will write to the body that makes recommendations on teacher pay rises “shortly”, the government has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Budget 2017: What’s in it for schools?

The chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his budget speech in parliament, announcing a series of measures aimed at improving…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Cautious schools can join academy trusts as ‘associate members’

The national schools commissioner is offering schools the option to join academy trusts as “associate members” so they do…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Budget 2017: Schools to get £600 for extra A-level maths pupils

Schools and colleges will get £600 for every extra pupil who studies maths at A-level under a proposal due…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker