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IFS: Labour’s free meals plan will cost £950m and breakfast clubs might be more effective

Labour’s plan to provide free school meals for all primary pupils “would come at a significant cost” and might not…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Anti-grammar schools campaign launches crowdfunding drive

A fundraising bid by a group of academics, authors and child psychologists will seek to challenge the government’s plans to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Troubled UTC Plymouth pauses recruitment at 14

An ‘inadequate’ university technical college will not take on any new year 10 pupils from September and is on…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Three-quarters of primary leaders lack confidence in SATs, survey finds

Three in four school leaders lack confidence in SATs, while half report having received inadequate information to prepare pupils for this…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Brexit will be ‘top challenge’ for schools in coming years

Brexit will be one of the “top challenges” for schools in the next few years, hitting recruitment, funding and…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Meet the teachers running in the General Election 2017

The teacher union activist and Schools Week blog reviewer Emma Hardy (pictured) is among several education professionals selected to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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School leaders want £200 funding uplift per sixth-former

School leaders have called on the government to introduce a £200 funding uplift for sixth form students – or…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teachers ‘unable to prepare’ as DfE drags feet over approved qualifications

The Department for Education has given teachers conflicting messages about when an approved list of 2019 technical and vocational…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Low-attainers ‘harshly’ marked in SATs assessments, study finds

Teachers at high-performing schools mark the work of their lowest-performing pupils more harshly in their SATs assessments, suggests a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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DfE refuses to release investigations into high-profile academy trusts

Ministers are refusing to release finance investigations into two high-profile academy trusts – one a government “top-performing” chain and…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Pupils face 40-mile commute as benefits cap pushes families out of London

Children are travelling up to 40 miles to school as the government’s benefits squeeze pushes families outside the capital….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted inspectors receive no training on secondary moderns

Ofsted inspectors have received no training on secondary modern schools, despite them operating in some of the toughest conditions…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg