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Roger Taylor appointed as new chair of exams regulator Ofqual

Former journalist and Careers and Enterprise Company adviser Roger Taylor will replace Amanda Spielman as the chair of the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust has ‘let down pupils’

One of England’s largest multi-academy trusts has been warned it has “let down pupils over a number of years”…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Councils face £600m blackhole in special needs funding

More than half a billion pounds must be found by 2025 to top up an already unsustainable special needs…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Half of new special free schools specialise in autism

Autism-specific schools make up almost half of all special needs free schools. The “more complex” requirements of autistic pupils…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools struggle as autism diagnoses rise 25 per cent

Schools are “struggling” to provide for autistic pupils following a 25 per cent increase in autism diagnoses in the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Christmas appeal: literacy charity Hackney Pirates needs help to get shipshape again

Schools Week is making a Christmas appeal for our readers to help an education charity that was left “shipwrecked”…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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DfE had agreement to share pupil nationality data with Home Office

The Department for Education (DfE) did have an agreement in place to share pupil nationality data with the Home…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted to scrutinise governors’ commitment after report found many lack expertise to challenge heads

Ofsted will keep tabs on governors not committed to their roles after the watchdog found many lack the expertise…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Exam re-mark requests plummet after Ofqual reforms

The number of exam grades that were changed after being re-marked has dropped by 25 per cent this year,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Primary school key stage 2 performance tables: 8 key progress findings

Pupils in primary schools across the country vary in their progress – under the government’s new value-added measure –…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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2016 key stage 2 SATs: Fewer primary schools below floor standards

Fewer primary schools fell below the new “floor standards” this year compared with last – overturning the government’s expectation…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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First sixth form college and academy trust merger planned

The first merger between a sixth-form college and an academy trust is on the cards after the submission of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden