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Justine Greening pledges additional £1.3 billion for school funding

Justine Greening has announced £1.3 billion of additional funding for schools over the next two years – promising to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Lucy Powell joins two teachers in education committee line-up

The former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has been elected to serve on the education select committee alongside two…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Homework contracts raise standards, report claims

Schools should establish homework contracts with parents to set out everyone’s responsibilities in making sure it gets done, according…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Revealed: Sub-regional improvement boards set up to advise RSCs

The government has brought local authorities back into the fold as part of new “sub-regional improvement boards” set up…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Education has ‘done nothing’ to improve social mobility

Education has “not done anything” to improve social mobility and has made inequality worse, according to the education economist…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Sheffield school to sack TAs then rehire as ‘teaching fellows’

A primary school in Sheffield wants to sack the majority of its teaching assistants before rehiring them as “fellows”…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Labour MP Emma Hardy elected to education select committee

Emma Hardy, Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle, has been elected to sit on the education select committee…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Academy in shadow of Grenfell could stay shut until Easter

The school just yards from the Grenfell Tower blaze in west London will start the next academic year in…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Academy bosses increasingly use ‘GAG pooling’ to take control of funds

Multi-academy trusts are increasingly using new freedoms to pool their schools’ budgets into one central pot before dishing out…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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PISA tests for 5-year-olds – organiser defends pilot amid pupil pressure fears

Organisers of the new computer-based PISA tests the UK is to pilot for five-year-olds have hotly denied claims they…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Investigation: Government delay on consultations totals over EIGHT years

As schools close for the summer break, the government has yet to respond to nine consultations on new reforms…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Two organisations named to deliver government’s new ‘school leader’ qualifications

The government is to launch revamped leadership qualifications for school leaders in September using two organisations incorporating over 100…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden