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MPs to question heads over provision for excluded pupils

Headteachers will join local government officials to give evidence to MPs about the state of alternative provision on Tuesday….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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OCR suffers 20% drop in awards as schools flee iGCSE

A major exam board has reported a huge slump in certifications as schools shun iGCSEs in favour of more…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Free school in planning dispute finds temporary site

A south-east London free school at the centre of a planning dispute has found a temporary site. Bullers Wood…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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OCR fined £125k after GCSE exam answers found in textbooks

OCR will be fined £125,000 by Ofqual after partial answers to GCSE computing exam questions were found in textbooks…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ASCL: ‘Stop telling primary pupils they haven’t met expectations’

Schools must stop telling pupils they “didn’t meet standards” in year six, the Association of School and College Leaders…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Cornish diocese forces an entire MAT board to resign

According to official Department for Education guidance, members of academy trusts have the power to appoint and remove trustees…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Postcode lottery of pupil absence fines revealed

Local councils are collecting as little as 25 per cent of the fines they issue for children’s unauthorised absences…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Schools lose £145k to fraudsters posing as heads in new scam

Fraudsters impersonating headteachers have managed to con schools across the country out of tens of thousands of pounds in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Special-school pupils travel three times further to school

Special-school pupils face “insurmountable” travelling distances to school and risk being “forced out of the system altogether” as transport…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE confirms ITT applicants WON’T be assessed on suitability to teach

Teacher training providers will be pressured to enrol failed applicants under new changes confirmed by the government today, an…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Lowest-paid sixth-form college teachers to get 2% pay rise

The lowest-paid teachers at sixth-form colleges will get a two-per-cent pay increase under a deal struck between the National…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Men are paid 8% more and get 20% larger bonuses at Ofsted

Ofsted has revealed that men in its organisation are paid on average 8.1 per cent more than women. Bonuses…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker