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No decline in teacher’s average A-levels, despite squeezed pay

New teachers have the same level of education as five years ago, despite recent squeezes on pay making the profession less…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Send us your schoolwork! Biggest study of grammar to help shape curriculum

The biggest-ever archive of pupils’ schoolwork is being collected as part of a three year-project looking at how children…

Samantha Lauren King
Samantha Lauren King
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Staff offered therapy to manage work pressure

An alternative provision multi-academy trust has extended student therapeutic services to staff to help them to manage the challenges…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Rayner: Labour has ‘will and vision’ to improve education

Labour has the “political will and vision” to make England’s education system “the envy of the world”, the shadow…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Lower 11-plus pass mark for poorer pupils, government tells grammars

A lower 11-plus test pass mark will be introduced for poorer pupils in a bid to make grammar schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Staff and pupils ‘exposed to asbestos’ on more than 90 occasions

Asbestos has been disturbed at schools in a way that could affect the health of staff and pupils on…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Councils slash school crossing budgets – despite rising injuries

Councils across the country are slashing their school crossing patrol budgets despite growing pupil numbers and increasing child pedestrian…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Dodgy asbestos surveys costing schools ‘millions’

The government is buying up sites for free schools using out-of-date asbestos surveys, potentially costing the public purse millions…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Don’t take decisions which harm other trusts, Carter warns academy leaders

Academy bosses should not be taking decisions which have a negative impact on other trusts, Sir David Carter has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ASCL 2017: Justine Greening heckled by heads over grammar plans

School leaders heckled the education secretary Justine Greening today over claims that grammar schools help close the attainment gap…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Education Fellowship trust gives up all 12 schools over poor performance

An academy trust has become the first in the country to give up all its schools, after financial problems…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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£215 million to adapt building for SEND pupils won’t go to most needy

Special needs funding is now being allocated as “a blunt instrument”, with cash handed out based on population growth,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg