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First ‘low-cost’ private school delays its opening

England’s first “low-cost” private school has delayed its planned opening date in September because the Department for Education has…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Isle of Man bill reopens UK debate on home-schooling

The Isle of Man is consulting on plans to force parents who home-school to provide annual reports on their…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Nearly half of year 7 pupils make no progress in English

Nearly half of pupils made no progress or dipped in attainment in English in their first year at secondary…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Government doubles cash for letters promoting UTCs and studio schools

The Department for Education has more than doubled what it pays councils to write letters promoting University Technical Colleges…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads scramble to understand GCSE data after trio of problems

A trio of changes has left school leaders at a loss when trying to assess their own performance data…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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EBacc grades drop as pupils pushed in from creative subjects

GCSE results reveal a spike in the lowest grades in some core EBacc subjects, which experts have said could…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Urgent action needed to save MFL from ‘extinction’, claims expert

GCSE entries to modern foreign languages continued to fall this year, in a dropoff that could even see some…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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GCSE results 2017: Exam reform leaves 18-point gap between grades 4 and 5

Half of all grades in the reformed GCSEs were a grade 5 – a “strong pass” – or above,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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GCSE results 2017: Boys benefit again in reformed subjects

Boys have closed the gap on girls achieving top grades in English literature and language, and moved further ahead…

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn
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GCSE results 2017: The 7 most interesting things we have learned

GCSE results are out and there is a lot of noise in the statistics. Wales and Northern Ireland have…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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GCSE results 2017: More than 2,000 pupils scored 9s in all three reformed exams

About three per cent of grades awarded to pupils were the highest available in the newly reformed GCSE subjects….

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Costs of rebrokering academies to be published for first time

The mounting costs of passing failing schools between academy trusts are finally to be revealed by the Department for…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg