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Public accounts committee asks DfE to show its working

An influential group of MPs has publicly questioned the Department for Education’s ability to support schools with financial problems….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Goodbye NCTL, hello Teaching Regulation Agency

A new Teaching Regulation Agency will be established from April 2018, following the closure of the National College of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Write to schools about their behaviour policies, Children’s Commissioner tells DfE

The Children’s Commissioner wants to write a letter to all schools reminding leaders that behaviour policies must respect children’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Firm plans for compulsory PSHE needed ‘urgently’, says Children’s Commissioner

The government is under pressure to release “firm plans” for compulsory personal, social, health and economics education (PSHE) in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Dads must engage more with children’s education, research suggests

National programmes that involve fathers in their children’s education can help tackle boys’ underachievement in schools, new research has…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Dr Becky Allen to lead new Centre for Education Improvement Science

The UCL Institute of Education (IoE) has appointed Dr Becky Allen, the current head of Education Datalab, as the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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The pushy parents and unmanageable workloads at private schools

Private school teachers have spoken of their “unmanageable workloads” and “exhausted” colleagues, with a third reporting that they are…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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David Ross Education Trust told to improve after Ofsted visits 13 schools

A large academy trust has been told to improve pupil progress, just months after the resignations of several of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government investigates severance payouts in academy trusts

Government finance bosses are investigating several unnamed academy trusts that failed to get Treasury approval for hefty payments made…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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‘Confusion’ over grammar school expansion plans

A London MP is “confused” after a grammar school denied multiple reports in the press that it had plans…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted: Small private school leaders don’t know how to improve teaching

Small private schools are not failing Ofsted inspections because they refuse to teach British values, as the media has…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Government has 68 days to stop universal credit roll-out ‘poisoning’ January school census

School census data showing how many pupils are on free school meals will be “useless” for the next seven…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg