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SEND pupils missing out on school places, ombudsman warns

Pupils with special education needs and disabilities (SEND) are missing out on school places because councils are not doing…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Former Co-op boss appointed to £800-a-day DfE board position

Richard Pennycook, the former chief executive of the Co-operative Group, has been appointed as the Department for Education’s lead…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Agreement reached over age restrictions at former UTC site

An academy trust has agreed to council demands for access to facilities at two of its schools, in return…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Essex council plans spin-off multi-academy trust

Essex county council (ECC) is applying to set up its own multi-academy trust which, if successful, would be the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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CEOs, CFOs & COOS: How MATs struggle to recruit executives

Multi-academy trusts with more than five schools increasingly need senior finance, operating and executive officers, but school leaders lack…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Revealed: The winners of the 2017 Pearson Teaching Awards

Eleven teachers and teams from across the UK have been named as the winners of the 2017 Pearson Teaching…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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PE teachers lured into shortage subjects via new plan

The government’s new scheme to get PE trainees teaching EBacc subjects is splitting the schools community. The Association for…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Private teacher training providers escape Ofsted clutches

The bosses of the two biggest teacher-training organisations in the country have warned against using private providers which aren’t…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Spare our blushes! SRE teacher training needed before 2019

Funding is available this year for second subject specialism training in maths, physics and modern foreign languages – but…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Pupils face postcode lottery for well-funded alternative provision schools

The quality of alternative provision for excluded pupils varies wildly across the country, and even between adjacent authorities, exclusive…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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A* or your money back: Online learning platform Up Learn expands into schools

An online learning platform that claims to get students top grades or their money back is expanding into schools….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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£26m up for grabs to run breakfast clubs in 1,500 schools

The hunt is on for an organisation to deliver breakfast clubs in 1,500 schools located in disadvantaged areas as…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney