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Dunelm? Dunno: Furniture firm’s mysterious meeting with the DfE

Mystery surrounds a meeting between an education minister and a furniture company over potential academy sponsorship, especially as the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Pregnant? Offender? What the government wants to know about AP pupils

Explanations for why pupils are moved into alternative provision are to be centrally collected for the first time under…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£53m MAT growth fund open to trusts without proven record

£53 million will be made available to help multi-academy trusts (MATs) take on more schools, but the cash is…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Five things to be positive on the future of children’s mental health

An eagerly anticipated green paper is just one of the opportunities on the horizon for improving mental health provision…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Confirmed: Teacher apprentices will be paid on unqualified scale

Trainee teachers on a new postgraduate teaching apprenticeship will be guaranteed an unqualified teacher’s salary, the government has announced….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Unauthorised absences up despite government crackdown

Unauthorised absences are pushing an overall rise in the proportion of pupils taking time off school, despite government attempts…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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More reception pupils have ‘good’ development, and 4 other findings from EYFS results data

The government has published results data from the national Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFS). The results are based…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools must restart 20-hour computer science test amid security concerns

The exam board Edexcel has replaced the non-examined assessment (NEA) component of its computer science GCSE, leaving schools having…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Baverstock Academy fraud inquiry closed

The police have ended their investigation into alleged fraud at Birmingham’s Baverstock Academy. West Midlands Police said today that…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Jamie Oliver: Delayed ‘healthy schools rating’ should be compulsory

A voluntary rating system for healthy schools which the government has committed to rolling out in primary schools should be…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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New association to ‘oversee’ apprenticeship assessment

Two organisations are forming a new company to make sure new teaching apprenticeship routes are assessed properly, but insist…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Calls to end ‘discrimination’ against citizenship teachers

The government is “discriminating” against citizenship teachers and harming social mobility, the chief executive of the Association for Citizenship…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross