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Headteachers consider industrial action over academies plan

Headteachers will consider industrial action over a bid to turn all schools into academies after a union passed a motion opposing…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Morgan to manipulate primary floor standards

The number of primary schools which fall below government floor standards this year will be in the hundreds rather…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Nicky Morgan rejects ‘sexist’ question about Nick Gibb role

A sexism row has erupted between Nicky Morgan and a headteacher after she was quizzed on the balance of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Council faces £5.6m bill for free school

Hertfordshire county council has been forced to stump up cash for an expensive new free school or face a…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Academy head pilots super-size classes of 60

Super-size classes of 60 pupils with a single experienced teacher will be piloted next year by one of the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Tory shires rebel against plan for academies

Conservative councils are opposing the government’s academisation plans, adding their voices to a growing number of rebelling local authorities….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Heads can’t condone SATs boycott, but parent fines unlikely

Plans by parents to keep pupils away from primary schools on Tuesday in protest against the government’s testing regime…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Heads must decide on May 3 ‘protest’ absences

Headteachers must decide whether they will record pupil absences related to parent protests over this summer’s SATs as authorised or not. A petition…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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£2m announced for research into marking strategies

Schools and academy trusts have been encouraged to apply for funding to run trials into effective marking strategies, as the…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Ditched primary SATs will still set standards

Primary schools that carried out a now-defunct key stage 1 test must still provide their results to the government…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Free schools ‘socially select’ pupils, research suggests

Free schools have substantially fewer free school meals pupils and significantly more able children than other schools in their…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Can you predict Ofsted ratings?

The two most extreme Ofsted grades of “inadequate” and “outstanding” are being dished out on the whims of inspectors,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips