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Key academies spending document delayed… AGAIN

The Department for Education’s promised first key transparency report into academy finances will be published three months late, despite…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Wilshaw’s £15k bonus, and 6 more Ofsted annual report findings

Sir Michael Wilshaw was awarded a bonus of at least £15,000 in his final year as chief inspector, despite…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Bids sought for £10m foreign teacher recruitment drive

The government plans to spend up to £10 million recruiting and training hundreds of foreign physics, maths and languages…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE amends grammar schools research after complaint to stats watchdog

The government has been forced to backtrack on claims it made about the popularity of grammar schools following a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Two schools fail cladding fire safety tests

Two schools in London have been found to have combustible cladding during tests carried out by the government following…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Secondary school pupil numbers to rise by a fifth as population bulge hits

A population bulge is expected to send pupil numbers in secondary schools soaring by 19 per cent over the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Ofsted misses short inspections target for second year running

Ofsted has missed its target for the number of short inspections it carries out for the second year running…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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The 6 key policy recommendations from the Social Market Foundation’s inequality study

The Social Market Foundation has today published the results of its Commission on Inequality in Education. You can read…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teachers ‘70% more likely’ to leave schools in poorer areas

Teachers at the most deprived secondary schools are 70 per cent more likely to leave their jobs than those…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Former minister Robert Halfon elected as education select committee chair

Robert Halfon, a former education minister and staunch critic of the prime minister, has been elected as chair of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Broadly feasible’ to rate governors on nine metrics, study finds

It is possible to judge the quality of school governing bodies and boards based on nine specific metrics, an…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Private-state partnership project fails to collect necessary data

The government spent over £175,000 on partnership projects between state primaries and independent schools, but cannot measure how effective they…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden