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Schools ban watches to outsmart exam cheats

Teachers should be on high alert for technology-aided cheating during this summer’s exams after a scam involving cameras and…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Government confirm £300m available for academy conversion – the rest will go to existing trusts

Half of the £600 million earmarked to support the conversion of schools into academies will be handed to existing…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Head denies creating a ‘technical academy’ is a form of streaming

An all-through trust that will give pupils a “choice” between two schools offering a different “type of teaching” once…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Schools at risk of losing premises after charity defaults

Two schools have been put at “significant risk” of losing their shared building and playing fields after the charity…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Government plans ‘super SCITT’ for MFL teacher training crisis

A “super” school-led scheme to train language teachers is the latest government plan to ease staff shortages. Schools Week…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Two new expert groups will review MFL and primary schools

The government has commissioned two more expert review groups, despite its delay in publishing a number of other reports….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Do research champions and sports coaches in maths make pupils smarter? – the latest EEF findings

Evaluations of two research projects looking at sports coaching in English and speech therapy training for teachers, costing £1.1…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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FACT CHECK: Nick Gibb on term-time holidays

This morning, schools minister Nick Gibb told Parliament that a change in government policy had led to fewer school…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Term time holidays: Government will seek ‘whatever measures necessary’ to keep pupils in school

The government will seek “whatever measures necessary” to firm up term-time holiday rules, ministers have vowed after a dad…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Year 7 resits consultation will go ahead, says government

A consultation on plans to make year 7 pupils resit key stage 2 tests will go ahead in 2016/17, the…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Fashion A-level planned by exam board

An exam board has unveiled plans for a new A-level in fashion in the face of the government’s push…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Speed read: Coates review of education in prison – the schools bits

Dame Sally Coates published her review of education in prisons today. Michael Gove, as justice secretary, commissioned the review…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter