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Astrea Academy Trust hands 2% pay rise to all teachers

An academy trust will hand all its teachers and school leaders a two-per-cent pay rise, even though the government…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Leaked list reveals winners of Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund

A collaboration between academy chain heavyweights to set up a higher education institution to train expert teachers has won…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Change to EBacc measure breaks DfE’s own rules

The government’s plans to change the way schools are measured from 2018 appear to conflict with its own rules…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Nearly a third of pupils leave primary school unable to swim

Almost a third of primary pupils left school this year unable to swim, new figures show, as a major…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Academy chain rapped for employing trust leaders off payroll

A government review into the Enquire Learning Trust has identified “serious weaknesses” in both its financial management and governance…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Midlands MAT handed financial notice over ‘significant failings’

A trust has been issued with a financial notice to improve after a government investigation found hundreds of thousands…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Single textbook approved for maths mastery teaching

The government has approved just one textbook as part of its £41 million maths mastery programme – falling short…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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UTCs excluded from EBacc target, but not league tables

University technical colleges and studio schools have been excluded from the government’s EBacc entry target, but the measure will still…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government presses on with non-graduate teaching apprenticeship

Ministers are pressing ahead with proposals for an apprenticeship that would allow non-graduate teaching assistants to become qualified teachers,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Private schools rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted reach seven-year high

The proportion of private schools rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted has reached a seven-year high, official statistics reveal. New Ofsted…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Smith review: Not enough capacity for maths to 18

Schools and colleges do not currently have the capacity to teach all pupils maths until they are 18, but…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE planning changes to Progress 8 in 2018

The Department for Education will change the methodology for its Progress 8 accountability measure in 2018, after a consultation…

John Dickens
John Dickens