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Government pledges £45 million to ‘fully embed’ SEND reforms

The government has announced a £45 million pot to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, with the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Bright Tribe to give up struggling Whitehaven Academy

Bright Tribe academy trust is to give up Whitehaven Academy in Cumbria, following intense pressure from school staff and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teaching apprenticeship grant funding only available in ‘priority subjects’ (including classics)

Schools will receive grants to help them pay for new teaching apprenticeships, but only to cover teachers in certain…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The day of data: What we learned from a deluge of government statistics and announcements

Government departments and parliamentary bodies have this morning published a series of announcements, statistical datasets and reports. Here is…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Nick Gibb responds to MPs on grammar schools

Nick Gibb has written the government’s response to a parliamentary committee of MPs who investigated the plans for grammar…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Government misses teacher training targets in all EBacc subjects except history

The government has failed to train enough teachers for any Ebacc subjects except for history, official statistics have revealed….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Ofsted statistics shake-up will drop ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ rate by 2%

Ofsted wants to change the way it presents statistics about school inspections, including re-adding the past grades of turnaround…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Ofqual reports 26% rise in exam papers modified for access

Ofqual has recorded a dramatic 26-per-cent increase in the proportion of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers that were adapted…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Resits in GCSE English language rise by a third after first year of reformed exams

The number of students resitting the English language GCSE has risen by almost a third in the first year…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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EYFS results 2017: Attainment gap widens after 4 year trend of improvement

The lowest-attaining pupils did slightly worse than their peers in reception this year, reversing a trend of improvement seen…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted reception curriculum report: The 15 recommendations

Ofsted has today published ‘Bold beginnings’, its report into how reading, writing and maths are taught to pupils in the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teachers ‘should have to pass assessment test’ to qualify

Every teacher should be given a test on how to assess pupils before being awarded qualified teacher status, according…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg