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Revealed: Primary school floor standards for 2017

The government has revealed the key stage 2 attainment and progress scores schools will have to achieve to avoid falling…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Just three independent schools removed from register in three years

Only three private schools have been taken off the independent schools’ register in the past three years, even though Ofsted found more than 200 have…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools are ‘ideal places’ to provide holiday meals for poorer pupils

The government is under pressure to guarantee free meals for poorer children during the school holidays, and school facilities…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE launches £100k tender to independently review complaints against Ofsted

The Department for Education has this week started the hunt for an organisation to review complaints made against Ofsted….

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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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