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Minister: MPs should check up on safeguarding in schools

MPs should hold schools to account over safeguarding issues, an education minister has claimed. Anne Milton, skills minister and…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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It’s not the long hours that make teachers want to quit, new research suggests

Long hours and lots of marking are not the factors that make teachers want to leave their jobs, according…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted investigates inspection gaps at outstanding schools

Ofsted is to examine “unusually long gaps” between inspections of ‘outstanding’-rated schools, according to minutes of a board meeting….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools are referring more pupils to social services

Schools are sending more vulnerable children to social care services, with more than 110,000 cases last year, the latest…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Fall in Key Stage 2 re-marks

A lower proportion of key stage 2 tests were put forward for re-marks this year compared to last year, but…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Institute for Teaching launches to create ‘expert teachers’

Schools collectively spend more than £1 billion every year on teacher development but it mostly doesn’t help them get…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson


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Ofsted plans MAT inspection changes from 2018

Ofsted wants to change the way it inspects multi-academy trusts (MATs) from September 2018, according to a senior inspector….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Black and Asian parents make ‘more ambitious’ school choices

Black and Asian parents apply for more school places and are more likely to pick good schools further from…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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New academies minister: MAT sweet spot is 12 to 20 schools

The new academies minister has encouraged academy trusts to team up and expand, and said they should aim to…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted to review school knife crime after London mayor complaint

Ofsted is to review its approach to knife crime in schools following an intervention from the mayor of London….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Spielman: Let Ofsted inspect Multi-Academy Trusts

Ofsted should be allowed to inspect multi-academy trusts, the chief inspector of schools has said. Amanda Spielman told the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Cuckoo Hall academy slammed for ‘stage, not age’ curriculum

A beleagured academy which teaches pupils by “stage, not age” has been put into special measures by Ofsted, after…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg