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Newham schools consider suing council over £500k PFI costs

Two schools are considering high court action to settle a row with their local authority over a disputed PFI…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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DfE hires grammar school critic as head of strategy and social mobility

The Department for Education has appointed Emran Mian, the director of the Social Market Foundation think tank and a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Daventry becomes sixth UTC to announce closure after recruitment problems

Low student numbers will lead to closure of another University Technical College, the sixth to close or announce closure…

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Schools Week Reporter
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Bright Tribe walks away from struggling schools in north

A trust has pulled out of sponsoring two struggling schools in the north of England – despite being given…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teacher pay: 1 per cent rise will cost schools £250m, warns government

An increase in teachers’ pay of just 1 per cent would cost schools an additional £250 million next year,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Minister to ‘accelerate’ proposals for changes to sex education

Ministers have suggested that sex and relationships education could be made statutory in schools through upcoming legislation due early…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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PISA 2015: Achievement gap between top and bottom pupils equivalent to 8 years’ schooling

The gap in achievement between 15-year-old pupils in England in key subjects is one of the largest and most…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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PISA 2015: No improvement for a decade … and 10 other oddities

English pupils have not improved their PISA scores for almost the last decade, according to an international data set…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands

Christine Quinn is the newest regional schools commissioner, filling the shoes of Pank Patel who presided over significant growth…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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RSC Guide: Janet Renou, the North of England

When Janet Renou gave her first interview to Schools Week in 2014, just 13 per cent of schools in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Children’s commissioner launches ‘growing up north’ — a project to collect data on the northern education gap

The children’s commissioner Anne Longfield will lead a project aimed at addressing educational inequality in the north of England…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Promote British values and register home-schooled pupils, Casey review recommends

A landmark report which was supposed to provide a ‘major review’ of the impact of migration on schools has made…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker