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Ministers told to ‘come clean’ over national teaching service

Ministers must “come clean” over recruitment figures for a landmark scheme to parachute elite teachers into struggling schools, say…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Non-teachers should be hired to plug school leader shortage, says report

Schools should hire business people with no classroom experience for non-teaching executive roles to plug an expected shortage of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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No-resit GCSEs prompt rise in ‘special consideration’ requests – but ill pupils lose out

The number of requests for exam scripts to receive “special consideration” in marking increased this summer, mainly thanks to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE to open up academy finances in transparency drive

The government is set to lift a veil of secrecy over academy spending in a transparency drive that will…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Bright Tribe investigation reveals chain breached rules – but will not face notice to improve

An investigation into a “top-performing” academy trust given government cash to drive up standards in northern schools has revealed…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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The 8 most important findings from the government’s new-look academies report

The Education Committee has today published a “dry run” of how the Department for Education plans to report finances…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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One in ten secondary schools set to be labelled as “coasting”

More than 800 schools face being labelled as coasting, official figures published today have revealed – with one in…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Primary test leak report warns of future errors

An investigation into the Standards and Testing Agency following the leak of test papers online has found resource constraints…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE doesn’t know which interventions are ‘value for money’, education secretary says

Justine Greening failed to mention grammar schools in her speech today, given as the schools minister was grilled on…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Grammar schools could lose selective status for missing poor pupils target

Existing grammar schools could lose their selective status or have funding limited if they don’t admit more pupils from…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted ordered to amend report claiming gender segregation broke law

A school has lost its High Court challenge to overturn an Ofsted report placing it in “special measures”, although…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Tutor-proof 11-plus test is ‘Holy Grail’, claims minister

The establishment of a tutor-proof 11-plus test is the ‘Holy Grail’ for grammar schools, Nick Gibb has claimed. The…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker