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Sutton Trust: 2 in 5 pupils do no extracurricular activity

Almost two in five secondary school pupils don’t take part in any extracurricular activities, revealing a “big mismatch” between…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Headteacher board elections: the results

The Department for Education has announced the winners of the second elections to its headteacher boards. The eight boards…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Gibb blasted for ‘lack of action’ on sexual harassment in schools

Guidance for schools on dealing with sexual harassment is to be reviewed again, Nick Gibb has said, after he…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Ofsted publishes curriculum review preliminary findings

Schools are narrowing the primary curriculum by placing “too great a focus” on preparing for SATs, an investigation by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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T-Levels: New post-16 ‘education and childcare’ vocational route announced

“Education and childcare” will be one of the first new post-16 routes into technical education, the Department for Education revealed…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Revealed: New sponsors for WCAT’s schools

New sponsors for the 21 schools given up by the troubled Wakefield City Academies Trust have been provisionally named….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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RSC pushed to rebroker WCAT schools NINE months before official announcements

The regional schools commissioner first pushed to remove schools from Wakefield City Academies trust in December 2016, though it…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Government approves new teacher apprenticeship

The government has officially rubber-stamped proposals for a new apprenticeship for teachers, Schools Week can reveal. The Institute for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE to review ‘disproportionate’ exclusions of certain ethnicities

The Department for Education is to launch an external review into the links between pupil ethnicity and exclusions, focusing…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Headteacher outcry after £7m SEND pot assigned to academy expansion

A group of headteachers have written to their council, challenging its proposal to spend almost £30 million on expanding…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Excluded pupils twice as likely to have unqualified teachers, report finds

Excluded pupils are twice as likely to be taught by an unqualified or supply teacher when they reach their…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools are meeting more careers advice benchmarks

Schools are falling short of government-endorsed standards for good careers advice, despite a slight improvement in recent years, new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker