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School fines pupils for lateness

A school’s plan to fine parents if their children are consistently late for registration will not solve the problem,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Human rights charity warns headteachers over pupil nationality data collection

The human rights charity Liberty will write to every headteacher in England to demand better information for parents over…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Regional schools commissioner Jennifer Bexon-Smith to retire

Jennifer Bexon-Smith, regional schools commissioner for the East Midlands and the Humber, will retire in March after just over…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Flexible hours demand scuppers Return to Teaching pilot

One of the largest lead schools in the government’s “returner teachers” pilot says demands for flexible working scuppered the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Greening warned tinkering could cause funding formula to “come crashing down”

Justine Greening has been warned that tinkering with the proposed national funding formula to appease senior politicians pressing for…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Flooded schools need millions to relocate

Schools repeatedly damaged by flooding are mounting multi-million pound bids to move to new sites. The Department for Education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Headteacher performance not linked to subject background, new analysis claims

A new analysis has found a headteacher’s performance is not linked to their subject background – challenging previous research…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Building Futures Enterprise Academy Trust issued financial notice to improve

A Cumbrian academy trust with just two schools has been warned over its finances and had its spending powers…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Norfolk council rakes in £500,000 from academy conversion fees

Schools in Norfolk have paid more than £500,000 in “conversion costs” to their local authority to become academies, Schools…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Notices to failing private schools to be made public by government

Damning improvement notices for dozens of failing private schools will now be published online by the government, a year…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Flagship academy re-named after sponsors despite slipping into special measures

An academy has been renamed in recognition of its millionaire sponsor, just months after it was put in special…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government toughens up financial oversight demands in new governance framework

The government has toughened up the level of competency it expects from governors over financial oversight following a string…

John Dickens
John Dickens