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Investigation: Schools lose access to police officers as cuts bite

Schools are beginning to lose their access to dedicated police officers as cuts bite, with new figures obtained by…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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NUT staff at London school to strike outside DfE

Teachers and parents are set to strike on a picket line outside the Department for Education’s (DfE) London offices…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Calls for IT qualification to be saved as computing take-up stalls

A key group behind the government’s computing reforms has urged ministers to reinstate a “reformed” IT GCSE after new…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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INVESTIGATION: Only 1 in 3 new schools has sprinklers – and ‘expectation’ to fit them due to be removed from DfE policy

The proportion of new schools being built with fire-preventing sprinklers has halved to just 35 per cent since 2010,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Teacher interventions in pupil fights cost thousands in compensation

Teachers injured while breaking up fights between pupils are claiming tens of thousands of pounds each in compensation –…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Racial hate crimes in schools surge in wake of Brexit

Schools across the country have experienced a surge in racial hate crimes in the aftermath of Brexit, new figures…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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More than half of MPs educated in state comprehensives

More than half of the country’s MPs are comprehensively-educated for the first time, in a shift academics say is…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Meet the teachers elected as MPs

A new generation of teachers-turned-MPs have vowed to fight school funding cuts after an election which saw education issues…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Education graduates earn more than lawyers, figures show

School career advisors are being asked to talk up the earning potential of teaching after new government figures suggested…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Former DfE boss knighted and school leaders recognised in Queen’s birthday honours

Chris Wormald, the former Department for Education boss once criticised for letting his staff play with party hats in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Free school championed by Gibb rated outstanding across the board

A free school championed by schools minister Nick Gibb, and whose founder has previously said she would ban Ofsted,…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Purdah is over, but it has paralysed DfE for 6 months in 2 years

The government has been affected by pre-election rules preventing civil servants from talking to the press for more than…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker