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Heads back CofE call to ban parents withdrawing children from RE

Headteachers have backed Church of England plans to ban parents from withdrawing their pupils from religious education, claiming it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Open new selective schools in MATs only, urges Carmichael

New selective schools should only be allowed within multi-academy trusts so that youngsters can “move around” between vocational and…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Replace bursaries with ‘forgivable fees’ to boost teacher numbers, report claims

Teacher training bursaries should be scrapped in place of “forgivable” tuition fees for teaching graduates who stick in the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Funding system for new schools ‘increasingly incoherent’, say MPs

Funding for new schools is delivered through an “increasingly incoherent” system, with the government frequently paying “over the odds” for sites…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Labour pledges to bring back EMA with corporation tax hike

Labour will raise corporation tax to fund the re-introduction of the education maintenance allowance, the party has revealed today….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£100k per council would abolish holiday hunger, MPs claim

A cross-parliamentary group of MPs have said handing every local authority just over £100,000 a year would end holiday…

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John Dickens


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Corbyn 4-day bank holiday pledge ‘includes teachers’

A pledge by Jeremy Corbyn to give workers an additional four national holidays per year will reduce the school…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE to underwrite salary for free school ‘heads in waiting’ – and could even employ them in department

The Department for Education has published a pledge to support the founding of new free schools by underwriting the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofqual ditches plans to regulate ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ subjects

Exams regulator Ofqual is no longer seeking to harmonise the number of pupils achieving top grades across different subjects…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust

Regional schools commissioner Tim Coulson is stepping down from the role to head up a multi-academy trust – leaving…

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John Dickens
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Corbyn promises to halt rise of ‘super-size’ classes in latest Labour schools pledge

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that children are being “crammed in classrooms like sardines” and pledged to keep class sizes down…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Phonics boosts reading accuracy, study finds

Phonics has a “dramatic impact” on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension, researchers have claimed. A study, published…

John Dickens
John Dickens