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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


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Greening wants departure from ‘punitive intervention’ in struggling schools

The government needs to help schools feel there is not “a purely punitive intervention approach” to helping them improve,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Greening becomes third government minister to launch ‘careers strategy’

Justine Greening has become the third government minister to announce a long-awaited “careers strategy”, two years after it was…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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£2.2m for 11 new research schools takes total to 22

Eleven schools across England will split a pot of more than £2 million to become new research hubs, Justine…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Public ranks comprehensive schools as best for social mobility

Good comprehensive schools are the best way to reverse stagnating social mobility, ahead of any other kind of educational…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Five graphs that reveal why the 1% pay cap puts the education system at “substantial risk”

Stalling retention and recruitment is putting the future of the education system at “substantial risk”, according to the official…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Reform grammar schools or pull their funding, senior MP tells ministers

Ministers are under pressure to reform grammar schools or pull their funding after new government data showed that the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker