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Teach First plans 40% growth in social opportunity areas

Teach First plans to shift its focus away from London to six of the government’s 12 “opportunity areas”. Brett…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Schools will not be forced to promote National Citizen Service – but it will still get £424m a year

An extra-curricular project that schools were told they had to promote in assemblies is in financial disarray yet will…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Michael Gove: UTCs have failed

Michael Gove, the former education secretary and a key architect of the government’s fast-unravelling university technical colleges (UTCs) programme…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Long-awaited Ofsted report on double inspections to be published ‘before March’

A long-awaited Ofsted report on the “reliability” of inspections – tested through sending two inspectors to a school to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools forced to ‘reintegrate’ pupils after UTC and studio school closures

Schools that lose high proportions of pupils to university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools often have to “reintegrate”…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Booming academy transfer market pushes costs to potential £30m

More than 100 schools are now rebrokered every year as the booming academy transfer market pushes costs to a…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore

The fourth resignation of a regional schools commissioner in the past 19 months illustrates how the government is doing…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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School support staff ‘increasingly’ teaching lessons, union warns

Schools are increasingly deploying support staff to teach lessons, a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Performance-related pay criticised by thousands of teachers

Thousands of teachers have criticised the government’s performance-related pay system, with many claiming it has denied them access to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ASCL leadership election: Geoff Barton wins landslide victory

Geoff Barton, the popular headteacher and anti-establishment challenger in the race to be the new leader of the Association of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Free school to open above Lidl store after 3 years ‘in portacabins’

A primary school will re-open above a Lidl supermarket in a move experts say shows the “huge need” for…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Government considers PISA tests for 5 year olds

The government is considering taking part in a pilot of tablet-based tests for some of the youngest children in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker