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Female civil servants in DfE paid 6% less than men

Women working in the Department for Education (DfE) are paid on average 6 per cent less than their male…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Top DfE civil servant appointed as new East of England RSC

Sue Baldwin, a director at the Department for Education, has been appointed as the new regional schools commissioner for…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’, social mobility study finds

The attainment gap between poor and wealthy children has remained “stubbornly large” in secondary schools despite billions in targeted…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Mental health funding blunder corrected by government

A £200,000 investment in mental health training for school staff will train just 1,000 teachers and only cover the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Police arrests over stolen maths A-level exam papers

Police have arrested two men in connection with an investigation into a stolen Maths A-level exam paper offered for…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Schools won’t have budgets cut under funding formula, Greening confirms

The government remains committed to ensuring that no school loses money under the new national funding formula, the education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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May gives £67 per teacher for mental health training

A commitment to train secondary teachers to identify and deal with mental health problems in pupils will be funded…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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MATs dodge recruitment challenges by parachuting teachers into needy schools

Multi-academy trusts are dodging the recruitment crisis by parachuting teachers into schools that would normally struggle to hire, a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools

The country’s largest academy chain has been stripped of two schools – and is in talks about rebrokering more…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Spielman warns sixth form colleges about drop in Ofsted grades

Sixth-form colleges have received worse Ofsted grades this year, meaning that fewer than were first expected will now be…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE u-turn over school fire sprinklers

The government are reportedly dropping plans to weaken fire safety standards in new schools. The Observer has learned that…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Northern Rocks 2017: What we learned at the annual conference

The Northern Rocks conference kicked off with a minute-long round of applause for its co-organiser Emma Hardy, who was…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter