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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


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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