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Government accused of delaying report on impact of migration on schools

A “major review” of how mass migration has affected schools will now be rolled into a wider look at…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Ofqual reveals method for allocating highest grades in new GCSEs

New rules for allocating top grades in GCSEs have been floated by the exams watchdog Ofqual. From summer 2017,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government scraps this year’s KS1 SPAG test following paper leak

Primary schools will not have to make their pupils sit controversial new key stage 1 spelling and grammar tests…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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The trusts that run the country’s free schools – revealed

Schools Week today publishes a database that reveals the trusts running every free school in the country. This data…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Bellevue Place Education Trust – the free school group you’ve never heard of

Bellevue Place Education Trust (BPET) is the third largest free school owner, with seven primary schools in and around…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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DfE’s new property group exacerbates school land sale fears

Plans to transfer ownership of all school land to the government combined with rumours surrounding a property company set…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Do PiXL schools have more volatile results?

Schools Week analysed last year’s GCSE results for nearly 600 PiXL schools to try to ascertain whether their scores…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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The game changer: Schools Week’s year-long investigation into qualification switching and PiXL

Last year, Schools Week revealed how school network partnership PiXL encouraged the use of obscure qualifications to boost pupil…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Free breakfasts proposed for primary schools

A parliamentary report that highlighted the problem of children going to school hungry has proposed free breakfasts to tackle…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Parent-led free schools in steady decline

The future of free schools as independent, standalone institutions is in doubt as new rules requiring academies to join…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Exam board deal saves language GCSEs and A levels, but Dutch and Persian face the axe

Endangered GCSEs and A levels in languages including Panjabi, Portuguese and Japanese have been saved after a deal was…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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10 key findings from the DfE’s accounts: Bonuses, data breaches and lots more pay-offs

The Department for Education (finally) published its annual accounts yesterday. As expected, it wasn’t good news. The government’s spending…

John Dickens
John Dickens